Muertos griegos, seres sintientes. El uso de las emociones de los muertos como una herramienta jurídica en Atenas clásica
Anger is a valuable tool for the functioning of ethical, moral, and political relationships. On the other hand, it is seen as a threat to social bonds due to its destructive and vindictive nature. However, in certain contexts, abrupt feelings like anger and its counterpart, the fear of retaliation b...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
2026
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/analesHAMM/article/view/16179 |
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| Sumario: | Anger is a valuable tool for the functioning of ethical, moral, and political relationships. On the other hand, it is seen as a threat to social bonds due to its destructive and vindictive nature. However, in certain contexts, abrupt feelings like anger and its counterpart, the fear of retaliation by the angry party, can be identified as reactive emotions that incentivise judges to rule in one way or another. Events that require justice to compensate the harmed individual evoke emotional responses in victims, judges, and the general public. But what happens when the emotion is experienced by a deceased individual?
We aim to analyse some passages illustrating how orators used popular knowledge about the vengeful anger of the deceased to instil fear in jurors in and, thereby, encourage them to convict. Additionally, we will explore how this rhetorical tool brought about the creation of a fictional audience that, enforcing traditional values, filled the institutional gap inherent in the classical legal system, which lacked a hierarchical entity to regulate the trial’s content or the judges’ votes. |
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