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 proceedingsKai Ruffing - Kerstin Dross-Krüpe - Sebastian Fink - Robert Rollinger Societies at War Proceedings of the 10th Symposium of the Melammu Project held in Kassel September 26-28 2016 and Proceedings of the 8th Symposium of the Melammu Project held in Kiel November 11-15 2014 Societies at WarISBN-13: 978-3-7001-8572-7 ISBN-13 Online: 978-3-7001-8796-7Subject Area: Ancient History refereed - online - print |
Preliminaries page 1
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Table Of Contents page 5
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Acknowlodgements page 9
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Kerstin Dross-Krüpe - Sebastian Fink - Kai Ruffing
Introduction page 11
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Hannes D. Galter - Kai Ruffing
Introduction: “War and Numbers” page 15
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Davide Nadali
Numbers Matter. On the Nature and Function of Counting in Warfare in the Neo-Assyrian Period page 21
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Reinhold Bichler
Numbers in Herodotus page 39
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Patrick Reinard
“I do not think anyone in his senses would accept that!” Remarks on Numbers of Fallen Soldiers in Roman Historiography and commentarii page 63
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Giovanni B. Lanfranchi - Sabine Müller
Introduction “War and Legitimacy” page 99
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Salvator Gaspa
The Assyrian King as a Warrior: Legitimacy through War as a Religious and Political Issue from Middle Assyrian to Neo-Assyrian Times page 113
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Simonetta Ponchia
Legitimation of War and Warriors in Literary Texts page 157
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Daniel Ogden
The Treatment of Warfare in the Legendary Traditions of Seleucus page 177
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Frances Pownall
Liberation Propaganda as a Legitimizing Principle in Warfare: Dionysius I as an Antecedent to Philip and Alexander of Macedon page 199
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Rocío Da Riva
Introduction: “War and Ritual” page 219
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Martin Lang
War and Ritual in Mesopotamia and the Old Testament page 229
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Kai Trampedach
The Use of Divination in Ancient Greek Warfare page 251
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Wolfgang Havener
Tropaion. The Battlefield Trophy in Ancient Greece and Rome page 267
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Oliver Stoll
Introduction: “War and Civilians” page 293
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Josué J. Justel
“Run for your lives!” War and Refugees in the Ancient Near East during the Late Bronze Age page 307
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Anna Maria Kaiser
Recruits and Deserters – How Wars affect the Civil Administration in the Late Roman Empire page 331
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Igor Kreimerman
Why Were Cities Destroyed in Times of War? A View from the Southern Levant in the Third and Second Millennia BCE page 345
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Geert De Breucker
The Babylonian Temple Communities and Greek Culture in the Hellenistic Period page 385
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Christopher Baron
Communication in Alexander’s Empire page 409
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Hilmar Klinkott
Mithridates VI and the Formation of an Empire page 421
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Marion-Isabell Hoffmann
Sasanian rock reliefs and the British embassy, 1810–1812 page 457
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Jake Nabel
The Arsacids of Rome and Parthia’s “Iranian Revival” in the First Century CE page 475
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Sean Manning
War and Soldiers in the Achaemenid Empire: Some Historiographical and Methodological Considerations page 495
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Sabine Müller
The Winner Takes it All? Reflections on Persian Booty and Persian Cultural Property in Wartime page 517
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Susanne Rudnig-Zelt
“Who Created this Earth, Who Created Yonder Heaven, Who Created Man” – The Understanding of Creation in Old Persian Royal Inscriptions and the Old Testament page 545
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Ennio Biondi
Traces of Egyptian Culture in Plato’s Laws page 561
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Aleksandra Szalc
Indian Philosophers and Alexander the Great – Reality and Myth page 575
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Stéphanie Anthonioz - Nicolas Tenaillon
Greek Philosophy and the Wisdom of the East: The Case of ‘Lady Wisdom’ page 593
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Jeremy A. Simmons
Paideia, God, and the Transformation of Egyptian Lore in Plutarch’s De Iside et Osiride page 609
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Alberto Bernabé
Greek Philosophy and the Wisdom of the East. Response page 639
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Contributors page 643
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Index of Personal Names, Index of Place Names page 651
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