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Title Violence and community : law, space and identity in the ancient Eastern Mediterranean world / edited by Ioannis K. Xydopoulos, Kostas Vlassopoulos and Eleni Tounta
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (x, 198 pages)
Contents Introduction: the study of violence and community in ancient Greek history / Kostas Vlassopoulos and Ioannis K. Xydopoulos -- Making law grip: inequality, injustice, and legal remedy in Solonian Attica and ancient Israel / David Lewis -- How to cast a criminal out of Athens: law and territory in archaic Attica / Mirko Canevaro -- Macedonians in Bottiaea: 'warriors' and identities in late Iron Age and archaic Macedonia / Ioannis K. Xydopoulos -- Socialisation, identity and violence in classical Greek cities / Nick Fisher -- Binding curses, agency and the Athenian democracy / Zinon Papakonstantinou -- Reintegrating the exiles: violence, urban landscape and memory in early Hellenistic Tegea / Elias Koulakiotis -- Violating the security of the oikia: thefts from houses in the Hellenistic and Roman imperial periods / Nikolaos Giannakopoulos
Summary Violence and community were intimately linked in the ancient world. While various aspects of violence have been long studied on their own (warfare, revolution, murder, theft, piracy), there has been little effort so far to study violence as a unified field and explore its role in community formation. This volume aims to construct such an agenda by exploring the historiography of the study of violence in antiquity, and highlighting a number of important paradoxes of ancient violence. It explores the forceful nexus between wealth, power and the passions by focusing on three major aspects that link violence and community: the attempts of communities to regulate and canalise violence through law, the constitutive role of violence in communal identities, and the ways in which communities dealt with violence in regard to private and public space, landscapes and territories. The contributions to this volume range widely in both time and space: temporally, they cover the full span from the archaic to the Roman imperial period, while spatially they extend from Athens and Sparta through Crete, Arcadia and Macedonia to Egypt and Israel
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Violence -- Greece -- History
Communities -- Greece -- History
Law, Greek -- History
Civilization
Communities
Law, Greek
Violence
SUBJECT Greece -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057073
Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057041
Subject Greece
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Xydopoulos, Ioannis K., editor
Vlassopoulos, Kostas, editor
Tounta, Eleni, editor
ISBN 9781317001782
1317001788