Lysias III and Athenian beliefs about revenge

Classical Quarterly

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 363-366

  Harris, W V ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals

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EID: 61949353711     PISSN: 00098388     EISSN: 14716844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cq/47.2.363     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. 'Honour, Revenge and the State in Fourth-century Athens', in W. Eder (ed.), Die athenische Demokratie im 4. Jahrhundert v.Chr. (Stuttgart, 1995), pp. 43-60 (with discussion, pp. 61-6)
2. cf. 'Tribal and Civic Codes of Behaviour in Lysias I', CQ 43 (1993), 406-19
3. 'How Violent was Athenian Society?', in R. Osborne, S. Hornblower (edd.), Ritual, Finance, Politics. Athenian Democratic Accounts Presented to David Lewis (Oxford, 1994), pp. 99-117
4. In Die athenisclie Demokratie, pp. 62-63
5. In Die athenische Demokratie, p. 62
6. See Griechische Kulturgeschichte II (Basel & Stuttgart, 1956 [1898]), pp. 422-5
7. Other important discussions of classical Greek revenge include K. J. Dover, Greek Popular Morality in the Time of Plato and Aristotle (Oxford, 1974), esp. pp. 181-4
8. S. Said, 'La tragédie de la vengeance', in G. Courtois (ed.), La Vengeance. Études d'ethnologie, d'histoire el de philosophie (Paris, 1984), IV, pp. 47-90
9. H.-J. Gehrke, 'Die Griechen und die Rache. Ein Versuch in historischer Psychologie', Saeculum 38 (1987), 121-49
10. D. Cohen, Law, Violence and Community in Classical Athens (Cambridge, 1995), esp. chs 4-6
11. 'How Violent...', p. 109
12. 'Honour, Revenge...', p. 65, with a dry comment by D. Cohen
13. The charge is usually said to have been something like 'wounding with murderous intent', but in interpreting in that sense J. H. Lipsius (Das Attische Recht und Rechtsverfahren II [Leipzig, 1912], pp. 605-607), who is the source of modern teaching on the subject, seems to put too much faith in the transparently special pleading of Lysias iii.41-2 and iv.4-5
14. Cf. K. J. Dover, Greek Homosexuality (London, 1978), p. 33
15. See esp. 'Honour, Revenge ...', pp. 51-4
16. 'Honour, Revenge . . .', p. 52. But this does not extend to his search for witnesses (see previous note)
17. Herman, 'Tribal and Civic...', p. 408
18. Herman, 'How Violent...?', p. 107
19. 'How Violent...?', pp. 99, 102-5, the starting-point being Thuc. i.6
20. Said, op. cit. pp. 66-73