This book, in minute detail, presents a polyphony of voices, perspectives and opinions, from which emerges a diverse but coherent representation of the complex relationship between religion and war in the Ancient Near East, Greece and Rome.

Krzysztof Ulanowski, Ph.D. (2001), Gdańsk University, is lecturer of Religious Studies at the Gdańsk University Institute of Cultural Anthropology. He has published many articles on the ancient Near East and Greece and their interactions in the religious sphere.