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The topography of violence in the Greco-Roman world /
What soldiers do on the battlefield or boxers do in the ring, would be treated as criminal acts if carried out in an everyday setting. Perpetrators of violence in the classical world knew this and chose their venues and targets with care: killing Julius Caesar at a meeting of the Senate was delibera...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
2016.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; Part 1. The Greek World; 1. Xenophon and the Muleteer: Hubris, Retaliation, and the Purposes of Shame; 2. The Spartan Krypteia; 3. Where to Kill in Classical Athens: Assassinations, Executions, and the Athenian Public Space; 4. The Crime That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Violence against Women in the Athenian Courts; 5. Violence against Slaves in Classical Greece; 6. The Greek Battlefield: Classical Sparta and the Spectacle of Hoplite Warfare; 7. Violence at the Symposion; Part 2. The Roman World.
- 8. The Topography of Roman Assassination, 133 BCE-222 CE9. Urban Violence: Street, Forum, Bath, Circus, and Theater; 10. Violence against Women in Ancient Rome: Ideology versus Reality; 11. Violence and the Roman Slave; 12. The Roman Battlefield: Individual Exploits in Warfare of the Roman Republic; 13. War as Theater, from Tacitus to Dexippus; 14. Manipulating Space at the Roman Arena; 15. Party Hard: Violence in the Context of Roman Cenae; Footnotes; Contributors; Index.