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Decapitation in sources on Alexander the Great

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Decapitation in sources on Alexander the Greatby Marc Mendoza.
Author:	Mendoza, Marc.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2023.
Description:	ix, 129 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	BeheadingHistoryTo 1500.
Subject:	GreeceCongresses.HistoryMacedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19174-9
ISBN:	9783031191749$q(electronic bk.)

Decapitation in sources on Alexander the Great
Mendoza, Marc.

Decapitation in sources on Alexander the Great[electronic resource] /by Marc Mendoza. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2023. - ix, 129 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

1. Introduction -- 2. Greeks, Romans and Decapitation -- 3. Non-Curtian Decapitations -- 4. Negotiating Heads -- 5. Punished Heads -- 6. Heads as Trophies -- 7. Conclusions -- 8. Appendices.

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. Marc Mendoza is currently an Associate Lecturer at the University of Lleida, Spain.

ISBN: 9783031191749$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-19174-9doiSubjects--Personal Names:

593171
Alexander,
the Great,356 B.C.-323 B.C.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Beheading
--History--To 1500.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

391677
Greece
--History--Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C.--Congresses.

LC Class. No.: DF234.2

Dewey Class. No.: 938.070721

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