“Widely Disseminated Violence”: Studying Variants of the Violence Represented or Described in the Evidence of the Ancient Near East.

Abstract

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.