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Societies at War

Societies at War

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ISBN-13978-3-7001-8572-7
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Preliminaries

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Table Of Contents

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Acknowlodgements

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Kerstin Dross-Krüpe ORCID, Sebastian Fink ORCID, Kai Ruffing ORCID

Introduction

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Hannes D. Galter, Kai Ruffing

Introduction: “War and Numbers”

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Davide Nadali

Numbers Matter. On the Nature and Function of Counting in Warfare in the Neo-Assyrian Period

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Reinhold Bichler

Numbers in Herodotus

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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

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Giovanni B. Lanfranchi, Sabine Müller

Introduction “War and Legitimacy”

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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

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Simonetta Ponchia

Legitimation of War and Warriors in Literary Texts

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Daniel Ogden

The Treatment of Warfare in the Legendary Traditions of Seleucus

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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

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Rocío Da Riva

Introduction: “War and Ritual”

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Martin Lang

War and Ritual in Mesopotamia and the Old Testament

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Kai Trampedach

The Use of Divination in Ancient Greek Warfare

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Wolfgang Havener

Tropaion. The Battlefield Trophy in Ancient Greece and Rome

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Oliver Stoll

Introduction: “War and Civilians”

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Josué J. Justel

“Run for your lives!” War and Refugees in the Ancient Near East during the Late Bronze Age

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Anna Maria Kaiser

Recruits and Deserters – How Wars affect the Civil Administration in the Late Roman Empire

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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

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Geert De Breucker

The Babylonian Temple Communities and Greek Culture in the Hellenistic Period

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Christopher Baron

Communication in Alexander’s Empire

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Hilmar Klinkott

Mithridates VI and the Formation of an Empire

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Marion-Isabell Hoffmann

Sasanian rock reliefs and the British embassy, 1810–1812

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Jake Nabel

The Arsacids of Rome and Parthia’s “Iranian Revival” in the First Century CE

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Sean Manning

War and Soldiers in the Achaemenid Empire: Some Historiographical and Methodological Considerations

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Sabine Müller

The Winner Takes it All? Reflections on Persian Booty and Persian Cultural Property in Wartime

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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

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Ennio Biondi

Traces of Egyptian Culture in Plato’s Laws

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Aleksandra Szalc

Indian Philosophers and Alexander the Great – Reality and Myth

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Stéphanie Anthonioz, Nicolas Tenaillon

Greek Philosophy and the Wisdom of the East: The Case of ‘Lady Wisdom’

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Jeremy A. Simmons

Paideia, God, and the Transformation of Egyptian Lore in Plutarch’s De Iside et Osiride

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Alberto Bernabé

Greek Philosophy and the Wisdom of the East. Response

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Contributors

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Index of Personal Names, Index of Place Names

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