ANTİK YUNAN ESERLERİNDE ŞİDDETİN İZDÜŞÜMLERİ
PROJECTIONS OF VIOLENCE IN ANCIENT GREEK LITERATURE

Summary/Abstract: As always taken a part of human being and life, naturally discourse and literature, violence has been one of the main themes of humanity. Violence means all actions giving people physical and spiritual harms via power and oppression and it can be examined private or collective, indirectly or directly, criminal or public. The common ground is oppression and marginalization of a party or an individual by another party. Violence, as one of the main themes in literature since Classical Greek has taken on a task of mirroring on the essence of human being and power. In this paper, the projections of violence are discussed in the works Iliad and Odyssey by Homer and the plays of the most prominent playwrights of the ancient Greece, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as the milestones of Western literature to reveal that it is the “violence” as a dominant theme that directs Western literature.

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