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Revenge, Punishment and Anger in Ancient Greek Justice

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Revenge, Punishment and Anger in Ancient Greek Justice

By: Joe Whitchurch

Anger was the engine of justice in the ancient Greek world. It drove quests for vengeance which resulted in a variety of consequences, often harmful not only for the relevant actors but also for the wider communities in which they lived. From as early as the seventh century BCE, Greek communities had developed more or less formal means of imposing restrictions on this behaviour in the form of courts. However, this did not necessarily mean a less angry or vengeful society so much as one where anger and revenge were subject to public sanction and sometimes put to public use. By the fifth and fourth centuries, the Athenian polis had developed a considerably more sophisticated system for the administration of justice, encompassing a variety of laws, courts, and procedures. In essence, the justice it meted out was built on the same emotional foundations as that seen in Homer. Jurors gave licence to or restrained the anger of plaintiffs in private cases, and they punished according to the anger they themselves felt in public ones. The growing state in ancient Greek poleis did not bring about a transition away from angry private revenge to emotionless public punishment. Rather, anger came increasingly to move into the public sphere, the emotional driver of an early state that defended its community, and even itself, through its vengeful acts of punishment.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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135045155X

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9781350451551

The People of Print

Seventeenth-Century England

By: Rachel Stenner,Kaley Kramer,Adam James Smith,Georgina E. M. Wilson,Joe Saunders,William Clayton,Jennifer Young,Alan B. Farmer,Benjamin Woodring,Michael Durrant,Verônica Calsoni Lima,Rosalind Johnson

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The People of Print

Seventeenth-Century England

This collection profiles understudied figures in the book and print trades of the seventeenth century. With an equal balance between women and men, it intervenes in the history of the trades, emphasising the broad range of material, cultural, and ideological work these people undertook. It offers a biographical introduction to each figure, placing them in their social, professional, and institutional settings. The collection considers varied print trade roles including that of the printer, publisher, paper-maker, and bookseller, as well as several specific trade networks and numerous textual forms. The biographies draw on extensive new archival research, with details of key sources for further study on each figure. Chronologically organised, this Element offers a primer both on numerous individual figures, and on the tribulations and innovations of the print trade in the century of revolution.

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171

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Cambridge University Press

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1009380699

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9781009380690

The Hidden Hardy

By: Joe Fisher

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The Hidden Hardy

By: Joe Fisher

Focusing on narrative structure, irony, satire and allusion, The Hidden Hardy offers a radical new perspective on Thomas Hardy's novels. Hardy's own accounts of himself and his work have long been seen as calculated impostures; it is argued here that the same qualities are not only present in his novels, but are critical factors in the way they are made. The respectable and acceptable surfaces are the impostures, masking hidden texts which are extremely hostile to established social, economic and cultural structures.

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215

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Springer

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1349221562

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9781349221561

No Ordinary Joe

By: Joe Calzaghe

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No Ordinary Joe

By: Joe Calzaghe

IT WAS past three o'clock in the morning when Joe Calzaghe experienced the sweetest validation of his professional life. Victory over Jeff Lacy, a 28-year-old American compared to a young Mike Tyson because of his power and "take-no-prisoners attitude", left no one in doubt about the world super middleweight champion's talent. For years, Calzaghe's virtuosity remained a legend of the Welsh valleys. His defeat in 1997 of Chris Eubank brought him to prominence, winning for him the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) super middleweight title. But despite a record number of defences of the belt, his career lacked a defining contest. A long line of challengers and ex-titleholders were disposed of but the biggest names in American boxing avoided the ultimate showdown he craved. Hand injuries further obscured the true level of his aptitude for an art he began to learn from his father, Enzo, at the age of eight when - inspired by Sugar Ray Leonard - a rolled-up carpet in the family home in Newbridge became a makeshift heavy bag. This is the story of Calzaghe's extraordinary life, from his humble beginnings in his hometown of Newbridge, to his ascent to personal greatness, becoming the first super middleweight boxer to win the prized belt awarded by The Ring, the bible of boxing, in the division's near 20-year history. One of Britain's foremost sporting champions, a warrior and working-class hero, this is the story of the triumphs and trials that made Calzaghe a legend.

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362

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Random House

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1409064522

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9781409064527

The Rough Guide to Classical Music

By: Joe Staines

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The Rough Guide to Classical Music

By: Joe Staines

This expanded and completely revised fifth edition is a unique ebook, spanning a thousand years of music from Gregorian chant via Bach and Beethoven to current leading lights such as Thomas Adès and Kaija Saariaho. There are concise biographical profiles of more than 200 composers and informative summaries of the major compositions in all genres, from chamber works to operatic epics. Topics such as the influence of jazz, notation, conducting, the madrigal, and why Stradivarius made such great violins are covered fully in feature boxes. The Rough Guide to Classical Music in a new ebook (PDF) fromat has been praised for its mix of well-known composers with more obscure, but interesting, figures (like Antoine Brumel and Barbara Strozzi), and for the way it takes contemporary music seriously.

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691

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Penguin

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1405383216

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9781405383219

Superman: The City of Tomorrow Vol. 1

By: Jeph Loeb,Stuart Immonen,Mark Millar,Joe Kelly,Mark Schultz

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Superman: The City of Tomorrow Vol. 1

By: Jeph Loeb,Stuart Immonen,Mark Millar,Joe Kelly,Mark Schultz

A new millennium brings a new era for the Man of Steel, thanks to some of the biggest names in comics! The Son of Mongul debuts! Superman fights his Kryptonian ancestor! Etrigan poses as Santa Claus! Obsession returns-or is it "Mrs. Superman"? If that's not enough, Metropolis gets a major upgrade thanks to Brainiac 13, looking to bring the city into the 64th century! Collects SUPERMAN #151-154, SUPERMAN: Y2K #1, SUPERMAN: THE MAN OF STEEL #95-98, ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #573-576 and ACTION COMICS #760-763.

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468

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DC Comics

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1779505183

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9781779505187

Revenge, Punishment and Anger in Ancient Greek Justice

By: Joe Whitchurch

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Revenge, Punishment and Anger in Ancient Greek Justice

Revenge, Punishment and Anger in Ancient Greek Justice

The People of Print

The People of Print

The Hidden Hardy

The Hidden Hardy

No Ordinary Joe

No Ordinary Joe

The Rough Guide to Classical Music

The Rough Guide to Classical Music

Superman: The City of Tomorrow Vol. 1

Superman: The City of Tomorrow Vol. 1

Revenge, Punishment and Anger in Ancient Greek Justice

Revenge, Punishment and Anger in Ancient Greek Justice

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