Buch, Englisch, Band 492, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 540 g
Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements
Buch, Englisch, Band 492, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 540 g
Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements
ISBN: 978-90-04-71840-1
Verlag: World Bank Publications
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.
Weitere Infos & Material
Preface
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Part1 Theoretical Considerations
1 Introduction: From Necropolitics to Ancient Necropolitics
Alexandros Velaoras
Part2 Necropolitics in Configurations of the Imaginary
2 Necropolitics in the Iliad: Between Myth and Reality
Cezary Kucewicz
3 Odysseus’ Corpses: Necropolitics and Homer’s Odyssey
Jesse Weiner
4 Sophocles’ Ajax: The Necropolitical Treatment of the Hero’s Life and Death
Efimia D. Karakantza
5 Enacting Necropolitics in Sophocles’ Antigone
Zina Giannopoulou
6 The Non-burial at Thebes: Attic Tragedy and the Athenian Necropolitical Micro-apparatus
Alexandros Velaoras
Part3 Dead and (Un)Buried: The Material Evidence
7 Deviations from Necro-normality in Ancient Greek Poleis: The Governance of the Corpse (Modalities and Symbolisms)
Dimitrios Bosnakis
8 Necropolitical Violence and Roman Power in Imperial Greek Biography and Historiography
Katerina Oikonomopoulou
9 Forms of Necropolitical Violence in Antiquity
Angeliki Syrkou
Part4 Necropolitics in Classical Reception
10 A Necropolitics of Posthuman Bodies? Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Lobster (2015) and The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
Benjamin Eldon Stevens
Index of Passages
General Index