The Siege of Rhodes and the Ethics of War
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Champion, Michael. (2014). The Siege of Rhodes and the Ethics of War. Ancient History Bulletin. 28(3-4), pp. 99 - 111.
Authors | Champion, Michael |
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Abstract | There is certainly a sense in which war’s formless, violent chaos, the lust for domination so often at its core or its sheer unexplainable evil, breaks through all cultural attempts to moderate or contain it. Yet culturally constructed moral norms and expectations about how war should be waged can and do have an effect on decisions about going to war and how to fight once a conflict has begun. This article is an attempt to listen to ethical discourses about war that emerged from the particular and rapidly changing political and social events of the early Hellenistic period, focusing on the Siege of Rhodes (305/4 BCE). |
Year | 2014 |
Journal | Ancient History Bulletin |
Journal citation | 28 (3-4), pp. 99 - 111 |
ISSN | 0835-3638 |
Page range | 99 - 111 |
Research Group | Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry |
Publisher's version | File Access Level Controlled |
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