The ethics of retaliatory violence in Athenian tragedy
This article focuses on the presentation of retaliatory violence in Athenian tragedy. It suggests that such tit-for-tat violence is characterized as problematic from the earliest Greek literature onwards, but also stresses the continuing importance of anger, honour, and revenge in classical Athenian...
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Brill Academic Publishers
2013
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