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The ancient world was a world where blood flowed freely ā from often large-scale public animal sacrifices, to violence in the arena, to menstruation in cramped living conditions and many other occasions. But despite this ubiquity of blood in everyday lives, sources for the Greek and Roman world only mention blood in specific circumstances and with specific meanings. With our contributions on blood in medicine, popular culture, religion, historiography, family and community identity as well as conflict and othering narratives the volume for the first time offers a comprehensive insight into the many contexts in which blood was a topic in Greek and Roman discourse. The contributions by renowned international experts show that blood was considered to be a substance charged with meaning where attitudes towards blood from different contexts interacted to give it a particular power for the ancient world.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Julia Hoffmann-Salz: The Power of Blood. Blood and Blood Ties in Greek and Roman Discourse ā An Introduction
- Jan Timmer: Ein ganz besondrer Saft? Blut bei den medizinischen Fachschriftstellern der rƶmischen Kaiserzeit
- Teun Tieleman: Galen on the Power of Blood. Science, Folklore, Ideology
- Laurence Totelin: The strixās milk and the power of infant blood
- Christian Laes: Out of Control. Bodily Humours in the Aesop Novel
- Jessica L. Lamont: Blood, Death, and āMagicalā Ritual Practice
- Bruno Bleckmann: Konstantin und die Kritik des blutigen Opfers. Neue Ćberlegungen
- Karen Klaiber Hersch: Revolutionary Blood. Tanaquil and Brutus
- Carlo Pelloso: The Plebeian, the Virgin and the Decemvir. The Curse of Pure Blood Against Tyranny
- Emily Kearns: Blood and bloodlines in the pre-Hellenistic Greek world
- Angelika Kellner: Blood is thicker than Water. The Plebeian, the Virgin and the Decemvir
- Sabine MĆ¼ller: Kinship Ties in Argead Politics
- Werner Eck: Fern der Heimat und doch mit ihr verbunden? Zur Heimatverbundenheit von Soldaten und ihren Frauen
- Kendra Eshleman: āAn Orator by Descentā. On the (Un)Importance of Blood Ties to the Second Sophists
- Julia Hoffmann-Salz: (No) Blood in the Bloodshed. Blood in Battle Narratives in Greek and Roman Historiography
- Carlo Arrighi: Il sangue prima delle parole: le espressioni dello scontro tra Roma e i barbari. Blood before Words: Expressions of the Clash between Rome and the Barbarians
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