Envy, poison, and death: women on trial in classical Athens
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...
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Zusammenfassung: | 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.0At 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 |
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adam_text | Contents
Figures ix
Abbreviations xi
PART 1: THE WOMEN
1.1 Introduction: Overview and Approach 3
1.2 The Evidence 11
1.3 What Charges? 38
1.4 Conclusion: ‘If Anyone Has Cursed Me . . . * 65
PART 2: ENVY
2.1 Introduction: ‘As Rust Eats Iron’ 71
2.2 Defining Emotions 80
2.3 Narratives of Phthonos 102
2.4 Phthonos and Misfortune 140
2.5 Conclusion: ‘Careless Talk. . . 162
PART 3: POISON
3.1 Introduction: ‘A Relish for the Envious* 167
3.2 Identifying Gossip 171
3.3 Genres of Gossip 180
3.4 Gossip ... In Public 191
3.5 Gossip ... In Private 212
3.6 Public, Private,. . . and Secret 224
3.7 From Gossip to Action 254
3.8 Conclusion: ‘A Covert Form of Witchcraft* 261
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PART 4: DEATH
4.1 Introduction: ‘Killed by Idle Gossip’ 265
4.2 After the War ... 267
4.3 Dependence and Vulnerability 292
4.4 ‘Dangerous Women’ 312
4.5 Conclusion: Envy, Poison, and Death 326
Epilogue: Social Trauma? 328
Bibliography 337
Generalindex 381
Index Locorum 403
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