Violence and Community

Ioannis K. Xydopoulos is an Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek History at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His publications include Social and Economic Relations between Macedonians and the Other Greeks (2006) and The Perception of Ancient Thracians in Classical Historiography (2007). Kostas Vlassopoulos is Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek History at the University of Crete. His publications include Unthinking the Greek Polis: Ancient Greek History beyond Eurocentrism (2007), Politics: Antiquity and its Legacy (2010) and Greeks and Barbarians (2013). Eleni Tounta is Assistant Professor of Medieval History at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her publications include The Western sacrum imperium and the Byzantine Empire (2008), Usurping Ritual (with Dr. Gerald Schwedler, 2010) and Medieval Mirrors of Power: Historians and Narratives in the Norman South of Italy (2012).

1. Introduction: the study of violence and community in ancient Greek history / 2. Making law grip: inequality, injustice and legal remedy in Solonian Attica and ancient Israel / 3. How to cast a criminal out of Athens: law and territory in archaic Attica / 4. Macedonians in Bottiaea: ‘warriors’ and identities in Late Iron Age and archaic Macedonia / 5. Socialisation, identity and violence in classical Greek cities / 6. Binding curses, agency and the Athenian democracy / 7. Reintegrating the exiles: violence, urban landscape and memory in early Hellenistic Tegea / 8. Violating the security of the oikia: thefts from houses in the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial periods