Ancient necropolitics: maltreating the living, abusing the dead in Greek antiquity

Preview [Authors and titles are listed at the end of this review]   Necropolitics is the study of political sovereignty in relation to the “living dead” — those peoples relegated to social conditions such that, although they remain physically alive, they no longer possess sovereignty over their living body. This sociopolitical term, effectively an extension … Continue reading Ancient necropolitics: maltreating the living, abusing the dead in Greek antiquity