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Peace in the Ancient World The Ancient World: Comparative Histories Series Editor: Kurt A. Raaflaub Published War and Peace in the Ancient World Edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub Household and Family Religion in Antiquity Edited by John Bodel and Saul Olyan Epic and History Edited by David Konstan and Kurt A. Raaflaub Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre‐Modern Societies Edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub and Richard J. A. Talbert The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives Edited by Johann P. Arnason and Kurt A. Raaflaub Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre‐Modern World Edited by Susan E. Alcock, John Bodel, and Richard J. A. Talbert The Gift in Antiquity Edited by Michael L. Satlow The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy Edited by Johann P. Arnason, Kurt A. Raaflaub, and Peter Wagner Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World Edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub Peace in the Ancient World: Concepts and Theories Edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub Peace in the Ancient World Concepts and Theories Edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub This edition first published 2016 © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Inc Registered Office John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK Editorial Offices 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148‐5020, USA 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford, OX4 2DQ, UK The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK For details of our global editorial offices, for customer services, and for information about how to apply for permission to reuse the copyright material in this book please see our website at www.wiley.com/wiley‐blackwell. The right of Kurt A. Raaflaub to be identified as the author of the editorial material in this work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. 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Cover image: 1st Image: Eirene image: © age fotostock / Alamy Stock Photo 2nd Image: The Maat image: © age fotostock / Alamy Stock Photo 3rd Image: Buddha image: © Creative Commons / Mario Biondi CC BY-SA 3.0 Set in 10.5/13.5pt Galliard by SPi Global, Pondicherry, India 1 2016 Contents Notes on Contributors vii Series Editor’s Preface ix Introduction 1 Kurt A. Raaflaub 1 Abhorring War, Yearning for Peace: The Quest for Peace in the Ancient World 12 Kurt A. Raaflaub 2 Concepts of Peace in Ancient Egypt 43 Susanne Bickel 3 Thinking about Peace in Ancient India 67 Johannes Bronkhorst 4 Searching for Peace in the Warring States: Philosophical Debates and the Management of Violence in Early China 98 Robin D. S. Yates 5 Greek Concepts and Theories of Peace 122 Kurt A. Raaflaub vi Contents 6 Broadening the Scope: Thinking about Peace in the Pre‐Modern World 158 Hans Van Wees Index 181 Notes on Contributors Susanne Bickel is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Basel, Switzerland, and director of the University’s King’s Valley Project. Her research focuses on Egyptian religion and culture (especially the funerary texts of the 3rd and 2nd millennium), temple iconography and epigraphy, and archaeology. Her book publications include La cosmogonie égyptienne avant le Nouvel Empire (1994); D’un monde à l’autre, Textes des Pyramides et Textes des Sarcophages (co‐ed., 2004); Images as Sources (co‐ed., 2007); Vergangenheit und Zukunft. Studien zum historischen Bewusstsein in der Thutmosidenzeit (ed., 2013). Johannes Bronkhorst is Emeritus Professor of Sanskrit and Indian studies at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. His main area of interest is the history of Indian thought in the broadest sense: religious, philosophical, and scientific. Among his most recent books are Aux origines de la philosophie i ndienne (2008); Buddhist Teaching in India (2009); Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism (2011); Absorption: Human Nature and Buddhist Liberation (2012). Kurt A. Raaflaub is David Herlihy University Professor and Professor of Classics and History Emeritus at Brown University in Providence, R.I. His research focuses on the social, political, and intellectual history of archaic and classical Greece and of the Roman republic, on the social dimension of ancient warfare, and on the comparative history of the ancient world. Publications that viii Notes oN CoNtributors are relevant in the present context include War and Society in the Ancient World (co‐ed., 1999); The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece (2004); Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (co‐author, 2007); War and Peace in the Ancient World (ed., 2007). Hans Van Wees is Grote Professor of Ancient History at University College London. His main areas of interest are the social and economic history of early Greece, archaic and classical Greek warfare, and the use of iconographical and comparative evidence in the study of the ancient Greek world. Book publica- tions relevant in the present context include Status Warriors: War, Violence, and Society in Homer and History (1992); War and Violence in Ancient Greece (ed., 2000); Greek Warfare: Myths and Realities (2004); A Companion to Archaic Greece (co‐ed., 2009). Robin D. S. Yates is James McGill Professor of East Asian Studies and History and Classical Studies at McGill University in Montréal, Canada. His research interests include early and traditional Chinese history, historical theory, archae- ology of culture, Chinese science and technology, and all aspects of Chinese warfare. His book publications include Five Lost Classics: Tao, Huang‐Lao, and Yin‐Yang in Han China (1997); Women in China from Earliest Times to the Present: A Bibliography of Studies in Western Languages (2009); Birth of an Empire: The State of Qin Revisited (co‐ed., 2013).
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