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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Eidinow, Esther (1970-....)
Titre(s) : Envy, poison, and death [Texte imprimé] : women on trial in classical Athens / Esther Eidinow
Édition : First edition
Publication : Oxford (GB) : Oxford University Press, 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-421 pages) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-379) and indexes
"At the heart of this volume are three trials held in Athens in the fourth century
BCE. The defendants were all women and in each case the charges involved a combination
of ritual activities. Two were condemned to death. Because of the brevity of the ancient
sources, and their lack of agreement, the precise charges are unclear, and the reasons
for taking these women to court remain mysterious. 'Envy, Poison, and Death' takes
the complexity and confusion of the evidence not as a riddle to be solved, but as
revealing multiple social dynamics. It explores the changing factors - material, ideological,
and psychological - that may have provoked these events. It focuses in particular
on the dual role of envy (phthonos) and gossip as processes by which communities identified
people and activities that were dangerous, and examines how and why those local, even
individual, dynamics may have come to shape official civic decisions during a time
of perceived hardship.At first sight so puzzling, these trials reveal a vivid picture
of the socio-political environment of Athens during the early-mid fourth century BCE,
including responses to changes in women's status and behaviour, and attitudes to ritual
activities within the city. The volume reveals some of the characters, events, and
even emotions that would help to shape an emergent concept of magic: it suggests that
the boundary of acceptable behaviour was shifting, not only within the legal arena
but also through the active involvement of society beyond the courts"--Dust jacket
Sujet(s) : Lois -- Athènes (Grèce) -- Antiquité
Femmes -- Statut juridique -- Athènes (Grèce) -- Antiquité
Criminelles -- Athènes (Grèce) -- Antiquité
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780199562602. - ISBN 0199562601 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb450229774
Notice n° :
FRBNF45022977
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)