Riess (classics, U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) defines violence narrowly for the purposes of this study, excluding the political realm, myth and tragedy, violence against animals (e.g. religiou
Paidea, the yearning for, and display of knowledge, reached its height as a cultural concept in the works of the Second Sophistic, an elite literary and philosophical movement seeking to ape the style
Editors Riess and Fagan present readers with a collection of academic essays and scholarly articles that examine how topography shaped the perception of violence in the classical Greek and Roman world
