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CONTENTS

Preface and acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Genocide as ancient practice: chimpanzees, humans,agricultural society

2. Genocide, and questioning of genocide, in the ancientGreek world: Herodotus and Thucydides

3. Genocide, trauma and world upside down in ancientGreek tragedy: Aeschylus and Euripides

4. Utopia and dystopia: Plato and Cicero?s Republics

5. Victimology and genocide: the Bible?s Exodus,Virgil?s Aeneid

6. Roman settler imperialism in Britain: narrative andcounter-narrative in Tacitus?s Agricola and Germania

7. The honourable colonizer

8. Was the Enlightenment the origin of the Holocaust?

Conclusion: Can there be an end to violence?

Notes

Index