A slain man’s surviving son can restore his honor through revenge

Evidence

Ah how fine it is, when a man is brought down, to leave a son behind! Orestes took revenge, he killed that cunning, murderous Aegisthus, who’d killed his famous father. — Homer; Robert Fagles; Bernard Knox, The Odyssey, 770

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Restorative justice can transform victim families into allies of their loved one’s killers — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 301; Revenge requires crime and punishment be separated in time — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 900

Related

• Revenge requires crime and punishment be separated in time (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Restorative justice can transform victim families into allies of their loved one’s killers #contradicts (0.75) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 301
• Revenge requires crime and punishment be separated in time #qualifies (0.60) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 900