Journal article

Publication year: 2014

Pages: 143-161

Journal: Hermes

Volume number: 142

Issue number: 2

ISSN: 0018-0777

URL: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/fsv/hermes/2014/00000142/00000002/art00005

Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag

Abstract: 

In Athenian popular courts plaintiffs and defendants normally do not confine themselves to factual and legal arguments but make emotional appeals as well. In order to do so they often use 'anger' as an argument. They do not only intend to motivate the jurors to identify themselves with their own emotional state but also want to communicate that the case is relevant for the community as well, so that the court has to punish in the interest of the polis. The latter is important especially in public trials. Showing their 'anger' and punishing according to the laws are often used synonymously. In this context the plaintiffs and the jurors do not just operate within an archaic code of behavior but strongly refer to the political sphere.

Harvard Citation style: Piepenbrink, K. (2014) Zwischen archaischem Verhaltenscodex und Polisbezug: Die Argumentation mit 'Zorn' in attischen Gerichtsreden, Hermes, 142(2), pp. 143-161. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/fsv/hermes/2014/00000142/00000002/art00005

APA Citation style: Piepenbrink, K. (2014). Zwischen archaischem Verhaltenscodex und Polisbezug: Die Argumentation mit 'Zorn' in attischen Gerichtsreden. Hermes. 142(2), 143-161. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/fsv/hermes/2014/00000142/00000002/art00005