Ancient Necropolitics : Maltreating the Living, Abusing the Dead in Greek Antiquity

by: Karakantza, E.D. Velaoras, A. Meyer, M.

Ancient Necropolitics

Maltreating the Living, Abusing the Dead in Greek Antiquity

Series:
Mnemosyne, Supplements, Volume: 492

Volume Editors: Efimia D. Karakantza, Alexandros Velaoras, and Marion Meyer

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.

Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Editors: Efimia D. Karakantza, Alexandros Velaoras, and Marion Meyer
Pages: i–xii

Copyright Page
Editors: Efimia D. Karakantza, Alexandros Velaoras, and Marion Meyer
Preface
Editors: Efimia D. Karakantza, Alexandros Velaoras, and Marion Meyer
Notes on Contributors
Editors: Efimia D. Karakantza, Alexandros Velaoras, and Marion Meyer
Part 1 Theoretical Considerations
Chapter 1 Introduction: From Necropolitics to Ancient Necropolitics
Author: Alexandros Velaoras
Pages: 3–19
Part 2 Necropolitics in Configurations of the Imaginary
Chapter 2 Necropolitics in the Iliad: Between Myth and Reality
Author: Cezary Kucewicz
Pages: 23–45
Chapter 3 Odysseus? Corpses: Necropolitics and Homer?s Odyssey
Author: Jesse Weiner
Pages: 46–62
Chapter 4 Sophocles? Ajax: The Necropolitical Treatment of the Hero?s Life and Death
Author: Efimia D. Karakantza
Pages: 63–84
Chapter 5 Enacting Necropolitics in Sophocles? Antigone
Author: Zina Giannopoulou
Pages: 85–105
Chapter 6 The Non-burial at Thebes: Attic Tragedy and the Athenian Necropolitical Micro-apparatus
Author: Alexandros Velaoras
Pages: 106–136
Part 3 Dead and (Un)Buried: The Material Evidence
Chapter 7 Deviations from Necro-normality in Ancient Greek Poleis: The Governance of the Corpse (Modalities and Symbolisms)
Author: Dimitrios Bosnakis
Pages: 139–163
Chapter 8 Necropolitical Violence and Roman Power in Imperial Greek Biography and Historiography
Author: Katerina Oikonomopoulou
Pages: 164–184
Chapter 9 Forms of Necropolitical Violence in Antiquity
Author: Angeliki Syrkou
Pages: 185–206
Part 4 Necropolitics in Classical Reception
Chapter 10 A Necropolitics of Posthuman Bodies? Yorgos Lanthimos?s The Lobster (2015) and The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
Author: Benjamin Eldon Stevens
Pages: 209–233
Back Matter
Indexes
Editors: Efimia D. Karakantza, Alexandros Velaoras, and Marion Meyer

Ancient Necropolitics : Maltreating the Living, Abusing the Dead in Greek Antiquity

by: Karakantza, E.D. Velaoras, A. Meyer, M.

• ISBN-13: 9789004718401 / 978-90-04-71840-1
• ISBN-03: 9004718400 / 90-04-71840-0
• E.J. Brill, Leiden, 2025