The topography of violence in the Greco-Roman world / Werner Riess and Garrett G. Fagan, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: The Greek World -- Xenophon and the Muleteer: Hubris, Retaliation, and the Purposes of Shame / David D. Phillips -- The Spartan Krypteia / Matthew Trundle -- Where to Kill in Classical Athens: Assassinations, Executions, and the Athenian Public Space / Werner Riess -- The Crime That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Violence against Women in the Athenian Courts / Rosanna Omitowoju -- Violence against Slaves in Classical Greece / Peter Hunt -- The Greek Battlefield: Classical Sparta and the Spectacle of Hoplite Warfare / Ellen Millender -- Violence at the Symposion / Oswyn Murray -- Part 2: The Roman World -- The Topography of Roman Assassination, 133 BCE-222 CE / Josiah Osgood -- Urban Violence: Street, Forum, Bath, Circus, and Theater / Garrett G. Fagan -- Violence against Women in Ancient Rome: Ideology versus Reality / Serena S. Witzke -- Violence and the Roman Slave / Noel Lenski -- The Roman Battlefield: Individual Exploits in Warfare of the Roman Republic / Graeme Ward -- War as Theater, from Tacitus to Dexippus / David Potter -- Manipulating Space at the Roman Arena / Garrett G. Fagan -- Party Hard: Violence in the Context of Roman Cenae / John Donahue.