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This book explores cases of decapitation found in sources on the reign of Alexander the Great. Despite the enormous literature on the career of Alexander the Great, this is the first study on the characterisation of violent deaths during his hectic reign. This historiographical omission has involved the tacit and blind acceptance of the details found in the ancient sources. Therefore, this book seeks to illustrate how cultural expectations, literary models, and ideological taboos shaped these accounts and argues for a close and critical reading of the sources. Given the different cultural considerations surrounding decapitation in Greek and Roman cultures, this book illustrates how those biases could have differently shaped certain episodes depending on the ultimate writer.
This book, therefore, can be especially interesting for scholars focused on the career of Alexander the Great, but also valuable for other Classicists, philologists, and even for anthropologists because itrepresents a good case of study of cultural symbolism of violent death, semantics of power, imperial domination and the confrontation between opposite cultural appreciations of a practice.
Pages
129 pages
Collection
n.c
Parution
2022-12-16
Marque
Palgrave Macmillan
EAN papier
9783031191732
EAN PDF
9783031191749
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1
Nombre pages imprimables
12
Taille du fichier
3953 Ko
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52,74 €
EAN EPUB
9783031191749
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
1
Nombre pages imprimables
12
Taille du fichier
8724 Ko
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Prix
52,74 €
Marc Mendoza is Associate Lecturer at the University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain.

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