LEADER 03882 am 22007813u 450 001 9910258754403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-59724-0 010 $a9786613627070 010 $a3-11-024560-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110245608 035 $a(CKB)2550000000083705 035 $a(EBL)848970 035 $a(OCoLC)775302020 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000639638 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11354433 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000639638 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10605414 035 $a(PQKB)11032263 035 $a(DE-B1597)57635 035 $a(OCoLC)785782852 035 $a(OCoLC)853262406 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110245608 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL848970 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10534144 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL362707 035 $a(ScCtBLL)b859465a-d8f1-4bde-a28e-71f58a364567 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC848970 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/56007 035 $a(PPN)175565139 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000083705 100 $a20110318d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPerforming interpersonal violence$b[electronic resource] $ecourt, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens /$fWerner Riess 210 $aBerlin $cDe Gruyter$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (492 p.) 225 1 $aMythosEikonPoiesis,$x1868-5080 ;$vBd. 4 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-024559-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tContents -- $tI. Introduction -- $tII. Forensic Speeches -- $tIII. Curse Tablets -- $tIV. Old and New Comedy -- $tV. Conclusions -- $tVI. References -- $tIndex Locorum -- $tGeneral Index 330 $aThis book offers the first attempt at understanding interpersonal violence in ancient Athens. While the archaic desire for revenge persisted into the classical period, it was channeled by the civil discourse of the democracy. Forensic speeches, curse tablets, and comedy display a remarkable openness regarding the definition of violence. But in daily life, Athenians had to draw the line between acceptable and unacceptable behavior. They did so by enacting a discourse on violence in the performance of these genres, during which complex negotiations about the legitimacy of violence took place. Performances such as the staging of trials and comedies ritually defined the meaning of violence and its appropriate application. Speeches and curse tablets not only spoke about violence, but also exacted it in a mediated form, deriving its legitimate use from a democratic principle, the communal decision of the human jurors in the first case and the underworld gods in the second. Since discourse and reality were intertwined and the discourse was ritualized, actual violence might also have been partly ritualized. By still respecting the on-going desire to harm one?s enemy, this partial ritualization of violence helped restrain violence and thus contributed to Athens? relative stability. 410 0$aMythosEikonPoiesis ;$vBd. 4. 606 $aTheater$zGreece$xHistory$yTo 500 606 $aViolence in the theater 606 $aViolence$zGreece$zAthens$xHistory 610 $aConflict. 610 $aPerformance. 610 $aRevenge. 610 $aRitual. 610 $aViolence. 615 0$aTheater$xHistory 615 0$aViolence in the theater. 615 0$aViolence$xHistory. 676 $a880.9/3552 686 $aNH 5850$2rvk 700 $aRiess$b Werner$0871840 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910258754403321 996 $aPerforming interpersonal violence$91946282 997 $aUNINA