Titlebook: Decapitation in Sources on Alexander the Great; Marc Mendoza Book 2023 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive li

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Marc MendozaConsiders representations of violence and beheading in sources on Alexander the Great‘s career.Explores the literary models and cultural factors at work in ancient historiography.Compares and contrast

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19174-9Beheading; Execution; Curtius; Livy; Polybius; Plutarch

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Appendices,In the previous general remarks about the Greeks’ hatred of decapitation, we stated that there was no single Hellenic case in which it was actually practised. However, this claim needs some clarification.

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Book 2023 also valuable for other Classicists, philologists, and even for anthropologists because itrepresents a good case of study of cultural symbolism of violent death, semantics of power, imperial domination and the confrontation between opposite cultural appreciations of a practice.. . .

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Introduction, reign, stating the sources that relate each episode. The main conclusion it can be drawn from this summary is a clear misbalance between Roman and Greek sources, being the first the ones that concentrate most of the evidence (especially, Curtius). This provides with a main research question: what a