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Hardcover Performing Interpersonal Violence: Court, Curse, and Comedy in Fourth-Century Bce Athens Book

ISBN: 3110245590

ISBN13: 9783110245592

Performing Interpersonal Violence: Court, Curse, and Comedy in Fourth-Century Bce Athens

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...

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