Metamorphosen des Leids

Abstract: Metamorphoses of Suffering. The Non-Thematisation of Sexual Violence Against Children in Ancient Historiography. Children are seldom mentioned in ancient literature, and in contrast to modern efforts to protect children as well as possible, no corresponding idea was conceptualized in Gree...

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Main Author: Peter Mauritsch
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: StudienVerlag 2017-12-01
Series:Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften
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Online Access:https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/3329
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spelling doaj-5c2948ae8cc04bedb2fddbcc1ae0f8ca2021-03-18T20:46:14ZdeuStudienVerlagÖsterreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften1016-765X2707-966X2017-12-0128310.25365/oezg-2017-28-3-3Metamorphosen des LeidsPeter Mauritsch 0Institut für Alte Geschichte und Altertumskunde, Universität Graz Abstract: Metamorphoses of Suffering. The Non-Thematisation of Sexual Violence Against Children in Ancient Historiography. Children are seldom mentioned in ancient literature, and in contrast to modern efforts to protect children as well as possible, no corresponding idea was conceptualized in Greek and Roman antiquity. Even as girls and boys o$en were victims of violence – especially in wartime but also in the hand of adults, with or without sexual abuse – their suffering never was understood as an aggression against them as individuals but only was used by historians and biographers as a means to depict the evil character of statesmen, generals or emperors. &e paper deals with the con'nements ancient historiography had to heed when describing acts of (sexual) violence. https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/3329childrenGreeceRomesexual abusehistoriography
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author Peter Mauritsch
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Metamorphosen des Leids
Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften
children
Greece
Rome
sexual abuse
historiography
author_facet Peter Mauritsch
author_sort Peter Mauritsch
title Metamorphosen des Leids
title_short Metamorphosen des Leids
title_full Metamorphosen des Leids
title_fullStr Metamorphosen des Leids
title_full_unstemmed Metamorphosen des Leids
title_sort metamorphosen des leids
publisher StudienVerlag
series Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften
issn 1016-765X
2707-966X
publishDate 2017-12-01
description Abstract: Metamorphoses of Suffering. The Non-Thematisation of Sexual Violence Against Children in Ancient Historiography. Children are seldom mentioned in ancient literature, and in contrast to modern efforts to protect children as well as possible, no corresponding idea was conceptualized in Greek and Roman antiquity. Even as girls and boys o$en were victims of violence – especially in wartime but also in the hand of adults, with or without sexual abuse – their suffering never was understood as an aggression against them as individuals but only was used by historians and biographers as a means to depict the evil character of statesmen, generals or emperors. &e paper deals with the con'nements ancient historiography had to heed when describing acts of (sexual) violence.
topic children
Greece
Rome
sexual abuse
historiography
url https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/3329
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