Rory Cox

Publications

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Origins of the Just War: Military Ethics and Culture in the Ancient Near East
Rory Cox (Caltech-Huntington, 2017-18)

Reveals the incredible richness and complexity of ethical thought about war in the three millennia preceding the Greco-Roman period, establishing the extent to which ancient just war thought prefigured much of what we now consider to be the building blocks of the Western just war tradition.