“Widely Disseminated Violence”: Studying Variants of the Violence Represented or Described in the Evidence of the Ancient Near East.
Keywords:
violence, warfare, visual communication, written accountsAbstract
Based on the research currently underway on violence, depicted or described, some variants are identified aside from officially displayed and heroic-epic violence. This violence, which I define as “widely disseminated violence”, is accomplished in different ways, indirect or subliminal, manifest or identifiable in the visual evidence, and also perceptible in the written sources.
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