Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XI, 479 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783110245608
Series Statement:
MythosEikonPoiesis Band 4
Content:
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. Performances such as the staging of trials and comedies ritually defined the meaning of violence and its appropriate application. Speeches and curse tablets not only spoke about violence, but also exacted it in a mediated form, deriving its legitimate use from a democratic principle, the communal decision of the human jurors in the first case and the underworld gods in the second. 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 ones enemy, this partial ritualization of violence helped restrain violence and thus contributed to Athens relative stability
Content:
V. ConclusionsChronological Development of the Violence Discourse in Different Genres -- Three Theses on Athenian Violence -- Controlling Function of Ritualization -- Social Origins of Perpetrators of Violence -- A State Monopoly on Violence? -- Outlook on Violence in Athenian Foreign Policy -- VI. References -- 1. Corpora of Athenian Curse Tablets -- 2. Abbreviated Works -- 3. English Translations -- 4. Secondary Literature -- Index locorum -- Literary Sources -- Inscriptions -- Papyri -- Iconographical Sources -- General Index -- Important Greek and Latin terms -- Ancient proper names (historical and fictional persons)
Note:
Habilitationsschrift Augsburg University, Germany 2008
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110245592
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Riess, Werner, 1970 - Performing interpersonal violence Berlin : de Gruyter, 2012 ISBN 9783110245592
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Athen
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Konfliktlösung
;
Gewalttätigkeit
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Soziale Kontrolle
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Wertordnung
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Geschichte 430 v. Chr.-300 v. Chr.
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Griechisch
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Komödie
;
Interpersonaler Konflikt
;
Gewalt
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Griechenland
;
Gerichtsrede
;
Interpersonaler Konflikt
;
Gewalt
;
Hochschulschrift
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Author information:
Riess, Werner 1970-
