Table of Contents
Introduction Werner Riess 1
Part 1 The Greek World
1 Xenophon and the Muleteer: Hubris, Retaliation, and the Purposes of Shame David D. Phillips 19
2 The Spartan Krypteia Matthew Trundle 60
3 Where to Kill in Classical Athens: Assassinations, Executions, and the Athenian Public Space Werner Riess 77
4 The Crime That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Violence against Women in the Athenian Courts Rosanna Omitowoju 113
5 Violence against Slaves in Classical Greece Peter Hunt 136
6 The Greek Battlefield: Classical Sparta and the Spectacle of Hoplite Warfare Ellen Millender 162
7 Violence at the Symposion Oswyn Murray 195
Part 2 The Roman World
8 The Topography of Roman Assassination, 133 BCE-222 CE Josiah Osgood 209
9 Urban Violence: Street, Forum, Bath, Circus, and Theater Garrett G. Fagan 231
10 Violence against Women in Ancient Rome: Ideology versus Reality Serena S. Witzke 248
11 Violence and the Roman Slave Noel Lenski 275
12 The Roman Battlefield: Individual Exploits in Warfare of the Roman Republic Graeme Ward 299
13 War as Theater, from Tacitus to Dexippus David Potter 325
14 Manipulating Space at the Roman Arena Garrett G. Fagan 349
15 Party Hard: Violence in the Context of Roman Cenae John Donahue 380
Contributors 401
Index 405