You will be redirected to OpenEdition Search. The speech has thus always been a text of primary importance for the study of the use of hybris in Greek law and legal discourse; 2 because of its fundamental concern with homosexual malpractices, it may have lacked until very recently the standard scholarly support of commentaries and translations, 3 but for that same reason it has received exceptional attention for its presentation of Athenian attitudes to sexuality and sexual offences since Sir Kenneth Dover and Georges Devereux, partly in collaboration, first directed classical scholarship in that direction in the s, and Michel Foucault, Paul Veyne and their American followers made it a hot topic in the late s.
A man hitting another may do much, Athenians, some of which the victim could not report to another, with his body shape, his look, his voice, when he shows that he is committing hybris, that he is his enemy, when he hits him with his fists, on the face. However it remains a single concept, and one of very considerable potency for his rhetorical strategy; all uses involve maltreatment of the body.
It is applied most often to the homosexual offences of which Timarchos is accused under the headings of porneia or hetairesis , in six contexts , 55, 87, , , ; when applied to the consensual sexual acts in which Timarchos allegedly engaged with a long sequence of older men, the hybris is said to be committed on him by those who hired or kept him, or, more often, by the defendant on himself or on his body.
In two cases Aeschines claims more active acts also revealed Timarchos to be a persistent hybristes against others, namely the humiliating beating he helped his friends Hegesandros and others to inflict on Pittalakos and the outrage aselgeia of his sexual acts with the wives of free men when holding an office on Andros But what can you expect?
Aeschines, 1, Against Timarchos Timarchos is said to have consented to everything he did to gratify his lovers from the doctor Euthydikos onwards, and the brief reference to the outrage aselgeia committed with the wives of the Andrians shows no interest in distinguishing rape from persuasion: the focus is placed rather on the dishonour done to the husbands, free men of Andros. Initially , Aeschines concentrates on the protection by various laws: for boys at schools and gymnasia against attack or abuse , and see also , and for boys and youths against being forced into prostitution by pimps or by their fathers , and against hybris, deliberately insulting or dishonouring behaviour What Aeschines keeps emphasising in his interpretations of these laws is the need to protect boys from being hired out for a form of prostitution Olynthian girl installed in a brothel, which lead to the death penalty for all three perpetrators all cases where the actual charge may well have been hybris : Dein.
