Performing Interpersonal Violence Court, Curse, and Comedy in Fourth-Century BCE Athens
This book offers the first attempt at understanding interpersonal violence in ancient Athens. While the archaic desire for revenge persisted into the classical period, it was channeled by the civil discourse of the democracy. Forensic speeches, curse tablets, and comedy display a remarkable openness...
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| description | This book offers the first attempt at understanding interpersonal violence in ancient Athens. While the archaic desire for revenge persisted into the classical period, it was channeled by the civil discourse of the democracy. Forensic speeches, curse tablets, and comedy display a remarkable openness regarding the definition of violence. But in daily life, Athenians had to draw the line between acceptable and unacceptable behavior. They did so by enacting a discourse on violence in the performance of these genres, during which complex negotiations about the legitimacy of violence took place. Since discourse and reality were intertwined and the discourse was ritualized, actual violence might also have been partly ritualized. By still respecting the on-going desire to harm one’s enemy, this partial ritualization of violence helped restrain violence and thus contributed to Athens’ relative stability. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-285652022-05-02T10:07:40Z Performing Interpersonal Violence Court, Curse, and Comedy in Fourth-Century BCE Athens Riess, Werner Classics Aristophanes Athens Curse tablet Demosthenes Hubris Menander Rape This book offers the first attempt at understanding interpersonal violence in ancient Athens. While the archaic desire for revenge persisted into the classical period, it was channeled by the civil discourse of the democracy. Forensic speeches, curse tablets, and comedy display a remarkable openness regarding the definition of violence. But in daily life, Athenians had to draw the line between acceptable and unacceptable behavior. They did so by enacting a discourse on violence in the performance of these genres, during which complex negotiations about the legitimacy of violence took place. Since discourse and reality were intertwined and the discourse was ritualized, actual violence might also have been partly ritualized. By still respecting the on-going desire to harm one’s enemy, this partial ritualization of violence helped restrain violence and thus contributed to Athens’ relative stability. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2018-01-01 23:55:55 2020-03-21 03:00:29 2020-04-01T13:06:53Z 2012-01-16 book 644210 OCN: 785782852 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30671 9783110245608 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/28565 eng MythosEikonPoiesis open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30671/1/644210.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30671/1/644210.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30671/1/644210.pdf De Gruyter af2fbfcc-ee87-43d8-a035-afb9d7eef6a5 969f21b5-ac00-4517-9de2-44973eec6874 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9783110245608 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 101080 KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access |
| spellingShingle | Classics Aristophanes Athens Curse tablet Demosthenes Hubris Menander Rape Performing Interpersonal Violence Court, Curse, and Comedy in Fourth-Century BCE Athens |
| title | Performing Interpersonal Violence Court, Curse, and Comedy in Fourth-Century BCE Athens |
| title_full | Performing Interpersonal Violence Court, Curse, and Comedy in Fourth-Century BCE Athens |
| title_fullStr | Performing Interpersonal Violence Court, Curse, and Comedy in Fourth-Century BCE Athens |
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| title_short | Performing Interpersonal Violence Court, Curse, and Comedy in Fourth-Century BCE Athens |
| title_sort | performing interpersonal violence court curse and comedy in fourth century bce athens |
| topic | Classics Aristophanes Athens Curse tablet Demosthenes Hubris Menander Rape |
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