Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
Loading next page...
/lp/brill/you-shall-not-kill-hierarchies-of-norms-in-ancient-rome1-O7KgI1ZByj
References
References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.
- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © 1992 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 0029-5973
- eISSN
- 1568-5276
- DOI
- 10.1163/156852792X00168
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
<jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Different kinds of norms regulate the problem of killing in Rome, custom and law being the most important of them. This survey is extended by an analysis of the exceptions to the general ban on killing: capital punishment, killing in sacred contexts and in war. Religion plays a specific legitimizing role in offering models of killing as well as in enciphering hierarchic structures of the Roman society. Stories like the one of the Horatii (Dion. H. 3,12-22) offer an insight into the processes of legitimization and their changing patterns. Furthermore, exempla literature is an important instrument of reflecting-and teaching-the solution of conflicts of norms by narrative hierarchization.</jats:p> </jats:sec>
Journal
Numen – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1992