03880 am 22007813u 450 99630905160331620200520144314.01-280-59724-097866136270703-11-024560-410.1515/9783110245608(CKB)2550000000083705(EBL)848970(OCoLC)775302020(SSID)ssj0000639638(PQKBManifestationID)11354433(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000639638(PQKBWorkID)10605414(PQKB)11032263(DE-B1597)57635(OCoLC)785782852(OCoLC)853262406(DE-B1597)9783110245608(Au-PeEL)EBL848970(CaPaEBR)ebr10534144(CaONFJC)MIL362707(ScCtBLL)b859465a-d8f1-4bde-a28e-71f58a364567(MiAaPQ)EBC848970(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/56007(PPN)175565139(EXLCZ)99255000000008370520110318d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPerforming interpersonal violence[electronic resource] court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens /Werner RiessBerlin De Gruyter20121 online resource (492 p.)MythosEikonPoiesis,1868-5080 ;Bd. 4Description based upon print version of record.3-11-024559-0 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- I. Introduction -- II. Forensic Speeches -- III. Curse Tablets -- IV. Old and New Comedy -- V. Conclusions -- VI. References -- Index Locorum -- General IndexThis 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. MythosEikonPoiesis ;Bd. 4.TheaterGreeceHistoryTo 500Violence in the theaterViolenceGreeceAthensHistoryConflict.Performance.Revenge.Ritual.Violence.TheaterHistoryViolence in the theater.ViolenceHistory.880.9/3552NH 5850rvkRiess Werner871840MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996309051603316Performing interpersonal violence1946282UNISA