Performing Interpersonal Violence
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-387302025-07-31T17:19:15Z Performing Interpersonal Violence Riess, Werner History Ancient General thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHC Ancient history 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. 2021-02-10T14:58:07Z 2021-02-10T14:58:07Z 2020-12-15T15:40:02Z 2012 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/45003 9783110245608 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38730 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/45003/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/45003/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/45003/1/external_content.pdf De Gruyter De Gruyter af2fbfcc-ee87-43d8-a035-afb9d7eef6a5 Knowledge Unlatched 9783110245608 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection De Gruyter open access |
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| title_short | Performing Interpersonal Violence |
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