Revenge in Athenian culture
Revenge was an all important part of the ancient Athenian mentality, intruding on all forms of life. Revenge was of prime importance as a means of survival for the people of early Greece. Through an examination of the texts, a more complex picture of how the Athenian people viewed revenge emerges.
| Основен автор: | McHardy, Fiona. |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
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London :
Duckworth,
2008.
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Revenge in Athenian culture. |
Съдържание:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; What constitutes revenge?; Why take revenge?; 1. A Life for a Life; Achieving a balance; Kin-help; Responses to homicide; Battlefield revenge; 'Women do most delight in revenge'; An eye for an eye; 2. Adultery, Rape and Seduction; The protection of women; Responses to sexual offences against women; Wars over women; Medea's sexual proprietariness; 3. Raiding, Theft and Property Disputes; The protection of property; Cattle-raiding; Property disputes in classical Athens; The significance of weaponry and armour; Ajax and the perverted cattle-raid.
- 4. Insults, Status and PowerResponses to insults and the protection of honour; Insults, honour and status in the Athenian law courts; Insults and power disputes in the Theban plays; 5. What Motivates Orestes?; The Oresteia story in Homer and tragedy; Parallels to the Oresteia story; Concluding Remarks: Patterns of Revenge; Notes; Bibliography; Index Locorum; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; X; Z.