Physical Description
xvi, 256 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents
Genocide as ancient practice : chimpanzees, humans, agricultural society
Genocide, and questioning of genocide, in the ancient Greek world : Herodotus and Thucydides
Genocide, trauma and world upside down in ancient Greek tragedy : Aeschylus and Euripides
Utopia and dystopia : Plato and Cicero's Republics
Victimology and genocide : the Bible's Exodus, Virgil's Aeneid
Roman settler imperialism in Britain : narrative and counter-narrative in Tacitus's Agricola and Germania
The honourable colonizer
Was the Enlightenment the origin of the Holocaust?
Conclusion: Can there be an end to violence?
ISBN
9780745325439
0745325432 (paperback)
9780745325446 (hardback)
0745325440 (hardback)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-248) and index.
Genocide as ancient practice : chimpanzees, humans, agricultural society -- Genocide, and questioning of genocide, in the ancient Greek world : Herodotus and Thucydides -- Genocide, trauma and world upside down in ancient Greek tragedy : Aeschylus and Euripides -- Utopia and dystopia : Plato and Cicero's Republics -- Victimology and genocide : the Bible's Exodus, Virgil's Aeneid -- Roman settler imperialism in Britain : narrative and counter-narrative in Tacitus's Agricola and Germania -- The honourable colonizer -- Was the Enlightenment the origin of the Holocaust? -- Conclusion: Can there be an end to violence?
