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Performing Interpersonal Violence : Court, Curse, and Comedy in Fourth-Century BCE Athens / Werner Riess.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: MythosEikonPoiesis ; 4Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (479 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110245608
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 880.9/3552 22
LOC classification:
  • PA3203 .R54 2011
Other classification:
  • NH 5850
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- I. Introduction -- II. Forensic Speeches -- III. Curse Tablets -- IV. Old and New Comedy -- V. Conclusions -- VI. References -- Index Locorum -- General Index
Title is part of eBook package: E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2012Title is part of eBook package: E-BOOK PACKAGE CLASSICAL STUDIES 2012Title is part of eBook package: E-BOOK PAKET ALTERTUM 2012Dissertation note: Habil Augsburg 2008. Summary: 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 one’s enemy, this partial ritualization of violence helped restrain violence and thus contributed to Athens’ relative stability.
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Habil Augsburg 2008.

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- I. Introduction -- II. Forensic Speeches -- III. Curse Tablets -- IV. Old and New Comedy -- V. Conclusions -- VI. References -- Index Locorum -- General Index

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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 one’s enemy, this partial ritualization of violence helped restrain violence and thus contributed to Athens’ relative stability.

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