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Emotions on Trial: Judging Crimes of Honour in Post-Civil-War Greece

Crime, Histoire & Sociétés Crime, History & societies Crime, Histoire & Sociétés / Crime, History & Societies Vol. 10, nº2 (2006) Varia Efi Avdela Emotions on Trial: Judging Crimes of Honour in Post-Civil-War Greece Avertissement Le contenu de ce site relève de la législation française sur la propriété intellectuelle et est la propriété exclusive de l'éditeur. Les œuvres figurant sur ce site peuvent être consultées et reproduites sur un support papier ou numérique sous réserve qu'elles soient strictement réservées à un usage soit personnel, soit scientifique ou pédagogique excluant toute exploitation commerciale. La reproduction devra obligatoirement mentionner l'éditeur, le nom de la revue, l'auteur et la référence du document. Toute autre reproduction est interdite sauf accord préalable de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France. revues.org Revues.org est un portail de revues en sciences humaines et sociales développé par le Cléo, Centre pour l'édition électronique ouverte (CNRS, EHESS, UP, UAPV). Référence électronique Efi Avdela, « Emotions on Trial: Judging Crimes of Honour in Post-Civil-War Greece », Crime, Histoire & Sociétés / Crime, History & Societies [En ligne], Vol. 10, nº2 | 2006, mis en ligne le 01 janvier 2010, consulté le 23 octobre 2014. URL : http://chs.revues.org/371 ; DOI : 10.4000/chs.371 Éditeur : Droz http://chs.revues.org http://www.revues.org Document accessible en ligne sur : http://chs.revues.org/371 Document généré automatiquement le 23 octobre 2014. La pagination ne correspond pas à la pagination de l'édition papier. c Droz Emotions on Trial: Judging Crimes of Honour in Post-Civil-War Greece 2 Efi Avdela Emotions on Trial: Judging Crimes of Honour in Post-Civil-War Greece Pagination de l'édition papier : p. 33-52 1 «Honour crime in Piraeus committed by soldier,» ran the title of a news story published in an Athens morning newspaper on 21 September 1951. According to the report, on the previous day, Panos Marmaris, a 22-year-old boilermaker doing his military service and a resident of Itea (near Delphi), shot his fellow-townsman, Andreas Triandafyllou, aged 32, at his kiosk in the Kaminia district of Piraeus. The perpetrator considered the victim the «seducer» of his 19- year-old sister Maria, whom he had made pregnant and whom he refused to marry. Marmaris, who had repeatedly tried to persuade the kiosk-owner to change his mind, had travelled to Piraeus for yet another meeting «in order to settle the difference between the two families,» which concerned «the contentious issue of the reinstatement of his relations [ ... ] with the perpetrator's sister, who had given birth to [the victim's] child.» Faced with Triandafyllou's categorical refusal and his provocative behaviour, Marmaris, «beside himself,» killed him. When he was arrested, «he invoked the usual reasons of honour,» while «he reproached the victim, to whose provocations he attributed the tragedy that took place»2. 2 News items such as these are typical of 1950s Greece. Throughout that decade, but also into the early sixties, Athenian newspapers carried a significant number of reports on crimes (murders, injuries and attempted murders) committed «for reasons of honour,» according to the repeated, stereotypical