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Ancient Necropolitics

Maltreating the Living, Abusing the Dead in Greek Antiquity

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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This is the first collection of essays approaching aspects of Greek antiquity and its reception through ‘necropolitics’. It discovers traces of necropolitics in the unburied and maltreated corpses of the Homeric epics; it follows the manifestations of necropower in Greek tragedy, historiography, and biography; and it delves into torture, capital punishment, and non-normative burials in the ancient Greek world. It contributes to the debate - much of which is only available in modern Greek - on recent archaeological evidence, notably the iron-bound individuals discovered in the Athenian suburb of Phaleron, and includes a captivating exploration of necropolitics in Yorgos Lanthimos’s Greek-tragedy-inspired cinema.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-01-30
Mått155 x 235 x 23 mm
Vikt574 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieMnemosyne, Supplements
Antal sidor256
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004718401

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Efimia D. Karakantza is Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the University of Patras, Greece. Her research focuses on metafeminist and political readings of ancient Greek literature, mainly tragedy. Her latest monographs include Who Am I? (Mis)Identity and the Polis in Oedipus Tyrannus (Harvard UP, 2020) and Antigone (Routledge, 2023).Alexandros Velaoras is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Patras, Greece. His research focuses on Attic tragedy, especially Euripides, and its reception. The title of his dissertation is The Arrival of the Suppliant in Euripides’ ‘Political Plays’.Marion Meyer, Ph.D. (1984), Univ.Prof. (1997, retired in 2020), taught Classical Archaeology in Germany and Vienna. Her studies focus on images and ancient Athens, e.g. Athena, Göttin von Athen. Kult und Mythos auf der Akropolis bis in klassische Zeit (2017).Contributors are: Dimitrios Bosnakis, Zina Giannopoulou, Efimia D. Karakantza, Cezary Kucewicz, Katerina Oikonomopoulou, Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Angeliki Syrkou, Alexandros Velaoras, Jesse Weiner.

PrefaceList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsPart1 Theoretical Considerations1 Introduction: From Necropolitics to Ancient NecropoliticsAlexandros VelaorasPart2 Necropolitics in Configurations of the Imaginary2 Necropolitics in the Iliad: Between Myth and RealityCezary Kucewicz3 Odysseus’ Corpses: Necropolitics and Homer’s OdysseyJesse Weiner4 Sophocles’ Ajax: The Necropolitical Treatment of the Hero’s Life and DeathEfimia D. Karakantza5 Enacting Necropolitics in Sophocles’ AntigoneZina Giannopoulou6 The Non-burial at Thebes: Attic Tragedy and the Athenian Necropolitical Micro-apparatusAlexandros VelaorasPart3 Dead and (Un)Buried: The Material Evidence7 Deviations from Necro-normality in Ancient Greek Poleis: The Governance of the Corpse (Modalities and Symbolisms)Dimitrios Bosnakis8 Necropolitical Violence and Roman Power in Imperial Greek Biography and HistoriographyKaterina Oikonomopoulou9 Forms of Necropolitical Violence in AntiquityAngeliki SyrkouPart4 Necropolitics in Classical Reception10 A Necropolitics of Posthuman Bodies? Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Lobster (2015) and The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)Benjamin Eldon StevensIndex of PassagesGeneral Index

"The overall volume is, nonetheless, commendable and lucid, with chapters that will be primarily of interest for scholars of Homer, Sophocles, and classical Athens, providing a varied assortment of analyses on these and other topics. Moreover, it serves as an innovative and insightful volume for the diversity of possible applications of Mbembe’s necropolitics that will hopefully inspire further scholarly applications of ancient necropolitics."Ryan Denson in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2025.11.21