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Published:28/08/2026Language:EnglishPages:180, Illustrated throughout in black & white and colour.BAR Number: S3282Series: BAR International Series

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Iconography of War in the Ancient Mediterranean World

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Edited by Julio C. Ruiz and Marta Nicolás-Muelas

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Images of warfare offer a lens through which to explore the values and ideologies of ancient societies. This volume, which emerges from the panel Iconography of War at the War in the Ancient World International Conference (WAWIC) in 2025, examines how war and conflict were represented, interpreted, and communicated through images in the ancient world. Bringing together specialists in archaeology, art history, ancient history, and Classical studies, this book explores visual media, including bronze votive figurines, monumental sculpture, reliefs, and ceramics. The chapters span diverse chronological and geographical contexts, focusing on the Greco-Roman world while also engaging with neighbouring cultures and the Iberian Peninsula. Through case studies, experts analyse how visual representations of weapons, armour, battle scenes, and martial bodies conveyed ideas about identity, status, ritual, and political authority.

About the Editor

Julio C. Ruiz is an archaeologist specialising in Greco-Roman sculpture, focusing on Hellenistic and Roman decorative art, with experience in cataloguing, teaching, and museum exhibitions. Marta Nicolás-Muelas is an archaeologist researching Greek and Iberian art, choral performance, and material culture through the lens of visual culture, ritual, and civic space, with experience in fieldwork direction and teaching. List of Contributors: Stephen DeCasien, Jaime A. González-Ocaña, Pelayo Huerta-Segovia, Marta Nicolás-Muelas, Julio C. Ruiz, Virgilio-M. Ruiz-Lucas, Carmen María Ruiz-Vivas, Alka Starac, Yael Young.

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‘This volume has much to recommend it. The papers within not only engage with known material, offering sophisticated analyses that potentially reframe our understanding of familiar objects but also introduce new collections, making them more easily available to scholars. It is a welcome addition to iconographic studies of war in the ancient world.’ Associate Professor Susann S. Lusnia, Tulane University