Ancient Near Eastern Weltanschauungen in contact and in contrast : rethinking ideology and propaganda in the ancient Near East - Portuese, Ludovico; Pallavidini, Marta (Münster : Zaphon, 2022)
Ideology and propaganda : an introduction -- Mesopotamia. An ideological approach to the issue of propaganda in ancient Near Eastern studies : new answers to old questions -- Visual tools of power argumentation : models in contrast? -- Lugal Kiš and related matters : how ideological are royal titles? -- Assyrian royal inscriptions between royal propaganda and historical positioning -- Revisiting the representation of the "other" in "Sargon's eighth campaign" -- Are monsters propagandistic? Thoughts on the imagery of hyperreality in ancient Assyria -- Doorway creatures : crises, ideologies and persuasion in the neo-Assyrian palace -- Kingship in space and time at the northwest palace, Nimrud -- Bodies of propaganda? The visual embodiment of kingship in the neo-Assyrian empire -- "An object of wonder for all of the people". Ideology and propaganda in the neo-Assyrian and neo-Babylonian empires -- Anatolia and Egypt. The hero, the pious, the chosen, the legitimate : one ideology, different propagandae in the Hittite empire -- "Šawoška of Šamuh̲a, my Lady, caught him like a fish with a net" : usurping the throne and writing about it -- Hittite funeral traditions and afterlife beliefs in the context of Hittite cosmology -- ḥr.w n k3.w and bibrû : between tribute and gift. Ideological and propagandistic developments in Egypto-Hittite relationships -- Syria and the Levant. Friend of the king : revisiting the household terminology in the EA 288 and its socio-political implications -- Ideology and material culture in the late Bronze Age northern Levant : a pottery perspective -- Fragments of power : the use of pottery and the reconnaissance of the presence of the middle Assyrian state in the archaeological record -- Elite ideology, ritual manipulation and the anomalous cultic practices implemented by the Hazor rulership.
Includes bibliographical references.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 20, 2022).
JSTOR
Keywords: Middle East -- Civilization -- To 622.; Ideology -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500.; Propaganda -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500.; Moyen-Orient -- Civilisation -- Jusqu'à 622.; HISTORY / Ancient / General; Civilization; Ideology; Propaganda; Middle East; To 1500; History