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Author: Monica R. Gale
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-04-05
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 1107027144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA wide-ranging study of violence in Latin literature, across the spectrum of texts and genres from Plautus to Prudentius.
Author: Werner Riess
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2016-06-15
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 0472119826
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines how location confers cultural meaning on acts of violence, and renders them socially acceptable--or not
Author: Monica R. Gale
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-04-05
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 1108624170
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the bites and scratches of lovers and the threat of flogging that hangs over the comic slave, to murder, rape, dismemberment, and crucifixion, violence is everywhere in Latin literature. The contributors to this volume explore the manifold ways in which violence is constructed and represented in Latin poetry and prose from Plautus to Prudentius, examining the interrelations between violence, language, power, and gender, and the narrative, rhetorical, and ideological functions of such depictions across the generic spectrum. How does violence contribute to the pleasure of the text? Do depictions of violence always reinforce status-hierarchies, or can they provoke a reassessment of normative value-systems? Is the reader necessarily complicit with authorial constructions of violence? These are pressing questions both for ancient literature and for film and other modern media, and this volume will be of interest to scholars and students of cultural studies as well as of the ancient world.
Author: Jill Harries
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-11-15
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1316582957
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat was crime in ancient Rome? Was it defined by law or social attitudes? How did damage to the individual differ from offences against the community as a whole? This book explores competing legal and extra-legal discourses in a number of areas, including theft, official malpractice, treason, sexual misconduct, crimes of violence, homicide, magic and perceptions of deviance. It argues that court practice was responsive to social change, despite the ingrained conservatism of the legal tradition, and that judges and litigants were in part responsible for the harsher operation of justice in Late Antiquity. Consideration is also given to how attitudes to crime were shaped not only by legal experts but also by the rhetorical education and practices of advocates, and by popular and even elite indifference to the finer points of law.
Author: Martin Goodman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-04-12
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 1134943857
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGoodman presents a lucid and balanced picture of the Roman world examining the Roman empire from a variety of perspectives; cultural, political, civic, social and religious.
Author: Ari Z. Bryen
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2013-08-21
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 0812208218
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat can we learn about the world of an ancient empire from the ways that people complain when they feel that they have been violated? What role did law play in people's lives? And what did they expect their government to do for them when they felt harmed and helpless? If ancient historians have frequently written about nonelite people as if they were undifferentiated and interchangeable, Ari Z. Bryen counters by drawing on one of our few sources of personal narratives from the Roman world: over a hundred papyrus petitions, submitted to local and imperial officials, in which individuals from the Egyptian countryside sought redress for acts of violence committed against them. By assembling these long-neglected materials (also translated as an appendix to the book) and putting them in conversation with contemporary perspectives from legal anthropology and social theory, Bryen shows how legal stories were used to work out relations of deference within local communities. Rather than a simple force of imperial power, an open legal system allowed petitioners to define their relationships with their local adversaries while contributing to the body of rules and expectations by which they would live in the future. In so doing, these Egyptian petitioners contributed to the creation of Roman imperial order more generally.
Author: Benjamin Isaac
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-08-10
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 1107135893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores how the Graeco-Roman world suffered from major power conflicts, imperial ambition, and ethnic, religious and racist strife.
Author: Harriet I. Flower
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-08-19
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 1108934242
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe inspiration for this volume comes from the work of its dedicatee, Brent D. Shaw, who is one of the most original and wide-ranging historians of the ancient world of the last half-century and continues to open up exciting new fields for exploration. Each of the distinguished contributors has produced a cutting-edge exploration of a topic in the history and culture of the Roman Empire dealing with a subject on which Professor Shaw has contributed valuable work. Three major themes extend across the volume as a whole. First, the ways in which the Roman world represented an intricate web of connections even while many people's lives remained fragmented and local. Second, the ways in which the peculiar Roman space promoted religious competition in a sophisticated marketplace for practices and beliefs, with Christianity being a major benefactor. Finally, the varying forms of violence which were endemic within and between communities.
Author: Jitse H. F. Dijkstra
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-10
Total Pages: 447
ISBN-13: 1108494900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comparative examination and interpretation of religious violence in the Graeco-Roman world and Late Antiquity.
Author: Garrett G. Fagan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-03-31
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1108882900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first in a four-volume set, The Cambridge World History of Violence, Volume 1 provides a comprehensive examination of violence in prehistory and the ancient world. Covering the Palaeolithic through to the end of classical antiquity, the chapters take a global perspective spanning sub-Saharan Africa, the Near East, Europe, India, China, Japan and Central America. Unlike many previous works, this book does not focus only on warfare but examines violence as a broader phenomenon. The historical approach complements, and in some cases critiques, previous research on the anthropology and psychology of violence in the human story. Written by a team of contributors who are experts in each of their respective fields, Volume 1 will be of particular interest to anyone fascinated by archaeology and the ancient world.
