War and Peace in the Ancient World (Ancient World Comparative Histories)

398 Pages·2006·2.59 MB·English

by  KA Raaflaub

War and Peace in the Ancient World
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The Ancient World: Comparative Histories
Series Editor:Kurt A. Raaflaub
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WarandPeaceintheAncientWorld
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War and Peace
in the Ancient World
Edited by
Kurt A. Raaflaub
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Contents
SeriesEditor’sPreface vii
NotesonContributors ix
1 Introduction:SearchingforPeaceintheAncientWorld 1
KurtA.Raaflaub
2 MakingWarandMakingPeaceinEarlyChina 34
RobinD.S.Yates
3 AncientIndia:PeaceWithinandWarWithout 53
RichardSalomon
4 WaterundertheStraw:PeaceinMesopotamia 66
BenjaminR.Foster
5 Making,Preserving,andBreakingthePeacewiththeHittiteState 81
RichardH.Beal
6 ConflictandReconciliationintheAncientMiddleEast:TheClashof
EgyptianandHittiteChariotsinSyria,andtheWorld’sFirstPeace
Treatybetween“Superpowers” 98
LannyBell
7 FromAchaemenidImperialOrdertoSasanianDiplomacy:War,Peace,
andReconciliationinPre-IslamicIran 121
JosefWiesehöfer
8 WarandReconciliationintheTraditionsofAncientIsrael:Historical,
Literary,andIdeologicalConsiderations 141
SusanNiditch
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VI CONTENTS
9 “TheyShallBeatTheirSwordsintoPlowshares”:AVisionofPeace
ThroughJusticeandItsBackgroundintheHebrewBible 161
ThomasKrüger
10 “LaughingforJoy”:WarandPeaceAmongtheGreeks 172
LawrenceA.Tritle
11 WarandReconciliationinGreekLiterature 191
DavidKonstan
12 War,Peace,andInternationalLawinAncientGreece 206
VictorAlonso
13 WarandPeace,FearandReconciliationatRome 226
NathanRosenstein
14 ThePriceofPeaceinAncientRome 245
CarlinA.Barton
15 TheGatesofWar(andPeace):RomanLiteraryPerspectives 256
JeriBlairDeBrohun
16 EarlyChristianViewsonViolence,War,andPeace 279
LouisJ.Swift
17 FightforGod–ButDoSowithKindness:ReflectionsonWar,Peace,
andCommunalIdentityinEarlyIslam 297
FredM.Donner
18 Peace,Reconciliation,andAllianceinAztecMexico 312
RossHassig
19 WarandPeaceintheIncaHeartland 329
CatherineJulien
20 TheLongPeaceAmongIroquoisNations 348
NetaC.Crawford
Index 369
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Series Editor’s Preface
The Ancient World: Comparative Histories
The application of the comparative approach to the ancient world at large has been
rare. The new series inaugurated with the present volume intends to fill this gap.
It will pursue important social, political, religious, economic, and intellectual issues
throughawiderangeofancientsocieties.“Ancient”willherebeunderstoodbroadly,
encompassingnotonlysocietiesthatare“ancient”withinthetraditionalchronological
framework of c. 3000 BCE to c. 600 CE in East, South, and West Asia, the Mediter-
ranean, and Europe, but also later ones that are structurally “ancient” or “early,”
suchasthoseinpremodernJapanorinMeso-andSouthAmericabeforetheSpanish
conquest.
Byengagingincomparativestudiesoftheancientworldonatrulyglobalscale,this
serieswillthrowlightnotonlyoncommonpatternsandmarkeddifferencesbutalso
illustratetheremarkablevarietyofresponseshumankinddevelopedtomeetcommon
challenges. Focusing, as it does, on periods that are far removed from our own time
andinwhichmodernidentitiesarelessimmediatelyengaged,theserieswillcontribute
to enhancing our understanding and appreciation of differences among cultures of
various traditions and backgrounds. Not least, it will thus illuminate the continuing
relevanceofthestudyoftheancientworldinhelpingustocopewithproblemsofour
ownmulticulturalworld.
Topics to be dealt with in future volumes include the role of private religion and
familycults;geography,ethnography,andperspectivesoftheworld;recordingthepast
andwritinghistory;andthepreservationandtransformationofthepastinoralpoetic
traditions.
KurtA.Raaflaub
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Notes on Contributors
Victor Alonso is Professor of Ancient History at the University of La Coruña in
Spain.Hereceivedhisdoctoratein1984withadissertationpublishedasNeutralidady
neutralismoenlaGuerradelPeloponeso(1987).HehasbeenmemberlibreattheCasade
VelázquezandSpanishaswellasHumboldtFellowattheUniversitiesofHeidelberg,
Nancy,andMünster.InadditiontonumerousarticlesonGreekinternationallaw,he
haspublishedabookonarchaicGreekcommerceandispreparingtheeditionofthe
proceedingsofaconferenceonsuccessioninHellenistickingdoms.
CarlinA.BartonreceivedherPh.D.fromtheUniversityofCaliforniaatBerkeley.She
is currently Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her
research has been focusing on the psychological and emotional life of the ancient
Romans. Her main publications include The Sorrows of the Ancient Romans: The
Gladiator and the Monster (1993) and Roman Honor: The Fire in the Bones (2001).
SheiscurrentlyworkingontheemotionsofRomanculticlife.
Richard H. Beal received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where he is
SeniorResearchAssociateontheHittiteDictionaryProjectoftheOrientalInstitute.
HisinterestsfocusonHittiteandMesopotamianpolitical,military,religious,andsocial
history.Hehaspublishednumerousarticles,including“HittiteOracles”(2002)and
“ThePredecessorsofHattušiliI”(2003),andTheOrganisationoftheHittiteMilitary
(1992).
LannyBellhasaPh.D.inEgyptologyfromtheUniversityofPennsylvania.Heserved
onthefacultyoftheUniversityofChicagoandisnowanindependentscholaraswellas
anAdjunctProfessoratBrownUniversity.From1977to1989hewasFieldDirector
oftheEpigraphicSurveyoftheOrientalInstitute.HehaseditedavolumeonAncient
Egypt,theAegeanandtheNearEast:StudiesinHonourofMarthaRhoadsBell(1997)
andpublishedarticleson“TheEpigraphicSurveyandtheRescueoftheMonuments
ofAncientEgypt”(1990)and“TheNewKingdom‘Divine’Temple:TheExampleof
Luxor”(1997),amongothers.
Neta C. Crawford is Professor of Political Science and African-American Studies at
BostonUniversity.ShehasaPh.D.inPoliticalSciencefromMITandhaswrittenbooks
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