Lysias III and Athenian beliefs about revenge
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9311481 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William V Harris (Columbia University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 363-366 |
| Publication date | 1997-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Classical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-8388 • E-ISSN: 1471-6844 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1093/cq/47.2.363 |
| OpenAlex | W1980215329 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 1 |
It has recently been argued by Gabriel Herman that fourth-century Athenian citizens, or at least the majority of them, believed that even under the impact of serious private aggression a man should not pursue revenge. The general ideal, so it is maintained, was to avoid not only violent revenge but also revenge through prosecution. Herman recognizes that other Athenian texts of the same period take the propriety of exacting revenge for granted, and he explains this in part by reference to a supposed ‘double standard’—a rather strange expression in this context, because it suggests that the propriety of revenge in classical Athens depended on the status of the victim of the revenge—which is not in fact the burden of Herman's doctrine
Aesthetics · Aggression · Context (archaeology · Criminology · Doctrine · Double standard · Expression (computer science · Ideal (ethics · Period (music · Political science · Classical Antiquity Studies · Computer Science · Forgiveness and Related Behaviors · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0.15 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2015 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |