A Cultural History of Genocide - The Truth in a 'False' Debate

Tristan Taylor

Abstract

In her recent work on mass-violence in the Roman republic, Barrandon (2018) dismissed the arugments of Van Wees' (2010)and others as to the application of the concept of 'genocide' to mass-violence in antiquity, which a reviewer of Barrandon summed up as putting to rest a 'false debate' ('faux débat). Barrandon's argument, however, hinges on the application of only one of the many competing definitions of 'genocide', which imports a requirement (absent in many other definitions) of the destruction of a people to pursue a goal of 'purity'.

Original language	English
Pages	74-74
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	ASCS 40: Australasian Society for Classical Studies 40th Annual Conference and Meeting - University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Duration: 28 Jan 2020 → 31 Jan 2020

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Conference	ASCS 40: Australasian Society for Classical Studies 40th Annual Conference and Meeting
City	Dunedin, New Zealand
Period	28/01/20 → 31/01/20

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