Lanfranchi Giovanni B., Ponchia Simonetta, Rollinger Robert (Eds.). Making Peace in the Ancient World

Zaphon, 2022. — 367 p. — (Melammu Workshops and Monographs 5).Proceedings of the 7th Melammu Workshop, Padova, 5–7 November 2018The title of the Melammu Workshop “Making Peace in Antiquity” points to two intertwined aims. The first consists in the analysis of the events, conditions, decisions and rules that led to and/or contributed to building and maintaining peace in particular periods and circumstances of the ancient world. The second consists in considering the idea and instruments of peace and making peace as evolving over time in a process that has distant roots. For instance, it is possible to trace this path, which certainly was not linear, in the stipulation of treaties, a practice which is attested since the 25th century BC, and in the formulation of international law 4,500 years ago. Moreover, it is worth considering the expectations and the meanings attributed to peace in their historical development and change.
Section I presents “Key Note Lectures” by Paolo Matthiae, Marc Van De Mieroop and Kurt A. Raaflaub. Section II is devoted to “Ancient Near East and Egypt” encompassing the histories of peace in Babylonian, Assyrian, Hittite, Biblical and Achaemenid realms. Section III, “The Mediterranean Worlds and Beyond” focusses on making peace from Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods.I Key Note Lectures
Paolo Matthiae - The Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Syria and Iraq and the Perspective of a Rebirth
Marc Van De Mieroop - Making Peace in the Ancient Near East
Kurt A. Raaflaub - Making and Experiencing Peace in the Ancient WorldII Ancient Near East and Egypt
Manfred Bietak - The Antagonism between Animosity and Peace-making in Ancient Egypt: Between Ideology and Practical Foreign Policy: An Extended Synopsis
Seth Richardson - Raiders, Neighbours, and Night-time: “Hybrid Peace” in Babylonia
Stefano de Martino - Making Peace in the Hittite Kingdom
Salvatore Gaspa - Making Peace in the Ancient Near East of the First Millennium BCE: The Case of the Assyrian Empire
Martti Nissinen - Peace and Peacemaking in the Hebrew Bible
Ann C. Gunter - Commemorating the End of Conflict in the Ancient Near East: Material Perspectives
Matthew Waters - Peace in Pieces: Making Peace in Elam
Josef Wiesehöfer - Peace and Views of Peace in Achaemenid IranIII The Mediterranean Worlds and Beyond
Christoph Schäfer - Making Peace in the Hellenistic World
Wolfgang Spickermann - Problems of Making Peace in the Roman Republic: The Case of Appius Claudius Caecus and King Pyrrhus
Sven Günther - Frames of Making Peace and Treaties in the Roman Empire
Umberto Roberto - Making Peace with the Goths and the Burial of Athanaric in Constantinople (January 381): A Note on Jordanes, Getica 28, 142–145
Johannes Preiser-Kapeller - Many Eyes of the World? Making Peace between Byzantium and Other Empires, 600–1200 CE