Gender Violence In Ancient Greece

Author : Fiona McHardy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9781472531568
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender Violence in Ancient Greece written by Fiona McHardy and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2025-05-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of this study is the violent crime committed in ancient Greek society against women and by women. These themes, intensely debated and increasingly the focus of current research, have grown in importance within the wider study of gender and sexuality in the ancient world. The author examines the portrayal of violence across a range of sources to develop a picture of gender and crime in ancient Greek law, literature, myth and society. The volume breaks new ground because it adopts an evolutionary biological approach to the subject, in particular by examining the research of psychologists Margo Wilson and Martin Daly, who in their studies of contemporary sexual crime mooted that sexual jealousy is at the root of the majority of violent acts including murder. McHardy explores how this modern study can be brought to bear on Classical scholarship around the same themes in antiquity. She also provides a methodological approach that combines 'grand' theory with an exploration of cultural contexts and historical development, considering the critiques from recent decades of the universalist premises that grew out of second wave feminism. Exploring such theoretical issues in the first two chapters, each subsequent, thematic, chapter will examine evidence from a range of sources and conclude with a case study.

Author : Garrett G. Fagan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108882900
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge World History of Violence: Volume 1, The Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds written by Garrett G. Fagan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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.

Author : Werner Riess
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472119826
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Topography of Violence in the Greco-Roman World written by Werner Riess and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how location confers cultural meaning on acts of violence, and renders them socially acceptable--or not

Author : Susan Deacy
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
ISBN 13 : 1905125879
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rape in Antiquity written by Susan Deacy and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 1997-12-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the Greeks and Roman perceive rape? How seriously was it taken, and who were seen as its main victims? The studies in this volume look at the social and legal realities of rape in the ancient world, and also at the numerous myths of rape which themselves may reflect real behaviour and attitudes. Modern readers, used to a discourse which focuses on the question of a woman's (or man's) consent to sexual activity and treats an unwilling partner as a victim worthy of sympathy, may find in ancient attitudes much that is disturbing.

Author : S. D. Lambert
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
ISBN 13 : 1910589217
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sociable Man written by S. D. Lambert and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociable Man, which celebrates the work of Nick Fisher, Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at Cardiff University, contains essays by leading classicists, ancient historians and archaeologists on the theme of ancient Greek social behaviour. Fifteen original papers reflect the diversity and the unities in the honorand's interests: politics and law (Hans van Wees on Solon's law of hybris, John K. Davies on the biography of a fourth-century Athenian politician); social values, including honour, dishonour and hybris (Stephen Lambert on honorific inscriptions, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones on domestic violence, Louis Rawlings on a dog named Hybris, James Whitley on victory dedications, Douglas Cairns on ransom and revenge in Homer); social relations in the Athenian navy (Sam Potts); gender and power (Janett Morgan on gendering of domestic space, Sian Lewis on women and tyranny, Ruth Westgate on animal imagery in mosaics); citizen identity, Athenian (Robin Osborne on the influence of Attic local environments on citizen formation) and Arcadian (James Roy on the Arcadian reputation for backwardness); and sexuality (David Konstan on Alciphron and the invention of pornography, Emma Stafford on masturbation). The papers will be essential reading for researchers and students of ancient Greek literature, history and archaeology. The book also includes tributes by Paul Cartledge and P. J. Shaw, respectively, on Fisher's place in research and teaching of ancient Greek social history.

Author : Mary Beard
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1782834532
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women & Power written by Mary Beard and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated edition of the Sunday Times Bestseller Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women. Her examples range from the classical world to the modern day, from Medusa and Athena to Theresa May and Hillary Clinton. Beard explores the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, considering the public voice of women, our cultural assumptions about women's relationship with power, and how powerful women resist being packaged into a male template. A year on since the advent of #metoo, Beard looks at how the discussions have moved on during this time, and how that intersects with issues of rape and consent, and the stories men tell themselves to support their actions. In trademark Beardian style, using examples ancient and modern, Beard argues, 'it's time for change - and now!' From the author of international bestseller SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome.

Author : Edward M. Harris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113945689X
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy and the Rule of Law in Classical Athens written by Edward M. Harris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-17 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together essays on Athenian law by Edward M. Harris, who challenges much of the recent scholarship on this topic. Presenting a balanced analysis of the legal system in ancient Athens, Harris stresses the importance of substantive issues and their contribution to our understanding of different types of legal procedures. He combines careful philological analysis with close attention to the political and social contexts of individual statutes. Collectively, the essays in this volume demonstrate the relationship between law and politics, the nature of the economy, the position of women, and the role of the legal system in Athenian society. They also show that the Athenians were more sophisticated in their approach to legal issues than has been assumed in the modern scholarship on this topic.

Author : Werner Riess
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472121839
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Topography of Violence in the Greco-Roman World written by Werner Riess and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 deliberate. That location asserted Senatorial superiority over a perceived tyrant, and so proclaimed the pure republican principles of the assassins. The contributors to The Topography of Violence in the Greco-Roman World take on a task not yet addressed in classical scholarship: they examine how topography shaped the perception and interpretation of violence in Greek and Roman antiquity. After an introduction explaining the “spatial turn” in the theoretical study of violence, “paired” chapters review political assassination, the battlefield, violence against women and slaves, and violence at Greek and Roman dinner parties. No other book either adopts the spatial theoretical framework or pairs the examination of different classes of violence in classical antiquity in this way. Both undergraduate and graduate students of classics, history, and political science will benefit from the collection, as will specialists in those disciplines. The papers are original and stimulating, and they are accessible to the educated general reader with some grounding in classical history.

Author : Karen F. Pierce
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
ISBN 13 : 9780715631478
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rape in Antiquity written by Karen F. Pierce and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 2002-07-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 12 original essays provides an overview of how Greeks and Romans perceived the phenomenon of rape. Using the numerous references to rape in Greek legal speeches, comedy, tragedy, visual art and myth, the authors assess the degree of seriousness with which rape was taken and who was seen as its main victims. They also consider whether the numerous Greek and Roman myths that involve rape reflect real-life behaviour and attitudes. Modern readers, used to a discourse which focuses on the question of woman's (or man's) consent to sexual activity, and which treats an unwilling partner as a sympathetic victim, may find in ancient attitudes much that is disturbing. The book should be of interest to students of women's history, ancient history and classical myth. The contributors are: Karim Arafat, James Arieti, Lucy Byrne, Susan Deacy, Thomas Harrison, Keith Hopwood, Martin Kilmer, Daniel Ogden, Rosanna Omitowoju, Karen F. Pierce, James Robson and Corinne Saunders.

Author : Sarah B Pomeroy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674042204
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Murder of Regilla written by Sarah B Pomeroy and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born to an illustrious Roman family in 125 BCE, Regilla was married at the age of fifteen to Herodes, a wealthy Greek. Twenty years later--and eight months pregnant with her sixth child--Regilla died under mysterious circumstances, after a blow to the abdomen delivered by Herodes's freedman. Though Herodes was charged, he was acquitted. Pomeroy's investigation suggests that despite Herodes's erection of numerous monuments to his deceased wife, he was in fact guilty of the crime.