Performing Interpersonal Violence

Court, Curse, and Comedy in Fourth-Century BCE Athens

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Riess, Werner

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479 Seiten

Englisch

De Gruytererschienen am16.01.2012

This book offers the first attempt at understanding interpersonal violence in ancient Athens. Speeches and curse tablets not only spoke about violence, but also exacted it, 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.mehr

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KlappentextThis book offers the first attempt at understanding interpersonal violence in ancient Athens. Speeches and curse tablets not only spoke about violence, but also exacted it, 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.

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ISBN/GTIN978-3-11-024559-2

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De Gruyter

Erscheinungsjahr2012

Erscheinungsdatum16.01.2012

ReiheMythosEikonPoiesis

Reihen-Nr.4

Seiten479 Seiten