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Author Evans, Richard

Title Piracy, Pillage, and Plunder in Antiquity : Appropriation and the Ancient World
Published Milton : Routledge, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (261 pages)
Series Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Routledge monographs in classical studies.
Contents Introduction / Clifford Ando -- By the hand of a robber : states, mercenaries, and bandits in Middle Bronze Age Mesopotamia / Seth Richardson -- The limits of nationalism : brigandage : piracy and mercenary service in fourth century BCE Athens / Matthew Trundle -- Piracy and pseudo piracy in classical Syracuse : financial replenishment through outsourcing, sacking temples and forced migrations / Richard Evans -- Terra cognita sed vacua? (Re- )appropriating territory through Hellenistic city foundations / Alex McAuley -- The colonisation of Pontiae (313 BC), piracy, and the nature of Rome's maritime expansion before the First Punic War / Roman Roth -- Campaigning against pirate mercenaries : a very Roman strategy? / Aaron Beek -- Pirating pastoral poverty : poetics in Tibullus 1.1 / Stephen Harrison -- The revolt of the boukoloi, class, and contemporary fiction in Achilles Tatius's Leucippe and Clitophon / John Hilton -- "Bad girls" : collective violence by women and the case of the Circumcellions in Roman North Africa / Martine de Marre -- Piracy, plunder and the legacy of archaeological research in North Africa / Eve Macdonald and Sandra Bingham -- Spoils of empire : Rider Haggard's appropriation of the katabasis motif in King Solomon's Mines / Liliana Tappeiner -- Epilogue / Richard Evans and Martine De Marre
Summary "Piracy, Pillage, and Plunder in Antiquity explores appropriation in its broadest terns in the ancient world, from brigands, mercenaries and state-sponsored 'piracy', to literary appropriation and the modern plundering of antiquities. The chronological extent of the studies in this volume, written by an international group of experts, ranges from about 2000 BCE to the 20th century. The geographical spectrum in similarly diverse, encompassing Africa, the Mediterranean, and Mesopotamia, allowing readers to track this phenomenon in various different manifestations. Predatory behaviour is a phenomenon seen in all walks of life. While violence may often be concomitant it is worth observing that predation can be extremely nuanced in its application, and it is precisely this gradation and its focus that occupies the essential issue in this volume. Piracy, Pillage, and Plunder in Antiquity will be of great interest to those studying a range of topics in antiquity, including literature and art, cities and their foundations, crime, warfare, and geography"-- Provided by publisher
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Subject Pirates -- Mediterranean Region -- History
Piracy -- Mediterranean Region -- History
Brigands and robbers -- Mediterranean Region -- History
Pillage -- Mediterranean Region -- History
Pirates in literature.
Brigands and robbers in literature.
History, Ancient.
HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
Brigands and robbers
Brigands and robbers in literature
History, Ancient
Pillage
Piracy
Pirates
Pirates in literature
SUBJECT Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 476. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98005633
Subject Mediterranean Region
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author De Marre, Martine
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