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Performing Interpersonal Violence
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 i...
On the Eastern Front 1914
A First World War Memoir. In the spring of 1915, Sgt. (Vizewachtmeister) Werner Riess of the Prussian field artillery was recovering from surgery at a military hospital in Wiesbaden, Germany. Referring to his battlefield diary and letters that he had sent home to his wife, while everything was still fresh in his mind he wrote this memoir of his five months fighting on the Eastern Front against the Russians. As Riess was in a very mobile unit, his memoir offers a personal view of much of Germany's Eastern Front from 4 August through 31 December 1914, when he returned to Berlin for surgery.Werner Riess related what he did, what he saw, and what he felt. He left us a seemingly honest personal memoir, not edited by the filters and analyses of historical perspective. Because at the time he wrote the memoir Riess still did not know what had transpired out of his sight, the editor added annotation text and a local map to each chapter and included some pertinent material from his wife's diary. This first edition is in English, but includes a scan of his original memoir in German.
The Topography of Violence in the Greco-Roman World
Examines how location confers cultural meaning on acts of violence, and renders them socially acceptable--or not
Paideia at Play
Paidea, the yearning for, and display of knowledge, reached its height as a cultural concept in the works of the Second Sophistic, an elite literary and philosophical movement seeking to ape the style and achievements of the 5th and 4th centuries BC. A crucial element in the display of paidea was an ability to mix the witty and playful with the serious and instructive. The Second Sophistic is known as a Greek phenomenon, but these essays ask how the Latin author Apuleius fitted into this framework, and created a distinctively latin expression of paidea, focusing on the elements of playfulness at its heart.
People and Institutions in the Roman Empire
People and Institutions in the Roman Empire examines the lived experience of individuals withinRoman state and social institutions including army, law, religion, arena, and baths. In so doingit contextualizes Garrett Fagan’s contributions to our understanding of Roman history.
Colloquia Attica. Band 2
Das Athen des 5. Jh. v. Chr. War geprägt von Gegensätzen - mit genau diesen beschäftigte sich das vierte Hamburger Colloquiumb Atticum: Wie konnten die alten Eliten unter der Demokratie von Kooperationen überzeugt werden? Die Autorinnen und Autoren erhellen zum einen mit ökonomischen, rechtlichen und logistischen Überlegungen die Funktionen des Seebunds. Zum anderen akzentuieren sie den Weg in den Peloponnesischen Krieg neu. Eine entpersönlichte Herrschaft garantierte zwar die Freiheit des Individuums, dieses musste sich jedoch der Staatsgewalt unterordnen. Scholien zu Aristophanes bekräftigen die antike Tradition, dass Perikles aufgrund innenpolitischer Probleme zum Krieg drängte. Alkibiades erscheint als schillernde Figur, die mit ihren Widersprüchen für die gegensätzlichen Tendenzen der Zeit steht. Nach den oligarchischen Coups von 411 und 404/3 v. Chr. spielten die Hopliten eine zentrale Rolle, die in ihrem Selbstverständnis zwischen Oligarchie und Demokratie schwankten. Schließlich lässt sich ikonographisch nachweisen, dass sich das Sehen um 480 v. Chr. so veränderte, dass von einer visuellen Revolution in der griechischen Welt gesprochen werden kann.
The Impact of Justice on the Roman Empire
The Impact of Justice on the Roman Empire discusses ways in which notions, practice and the ideology of justice impacted on the functioning of the Roman Empire. The papers assembled in this volume follow from the thirteenth workshop of the international network Impact of Empire. They focus on what was considered just in various groups of Roman subjects, how these views were legitimated, shifted over time, and how they affected policy making and political, administrative, and judicial practices. Linking all of the papers are three common themes: the emperor and justice, justice in a dispersed empire and differentiation of justice.
On Violence in History
Is global violence on the decline? Steven Pinker’s highly-publicized argument that human violence across the world has been dramatically abating continues to influence discourse among academics and the general public alike. In this provocative volume, a cast of eminent historians interrogate Pinker’s thesis by exposing the realities of violence throughout human history. In doing so, they reveal the history of human violence to be richer, more thought-provoking, and considerably more complicated than Pinker claims.
Being Alone in Antiquity
This volume aims to provide an interdisciplinary examination of various facets of being alone in Greco-Roman antiquity. Its focus is on solitude, social isolation and misanthropy, and the differing perceptions and experiences of and varying meanings and connotations attributed to them in the ancient world. Individual chapters examine a range of ancient contexts in which problems of solitude, loneliness, isolation and seclusion arose and were discussed, and in doing so shed light on some of humankind’s fundamental needs, fears and values.
