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Decapitation in Sources on Alexander the Great (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
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Decapitation in Sources on Alexander the Great (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
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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 it represents 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.
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