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.
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