The theatre of justice : : : aspects of performance in Greco-Roman oratory and rhetoric / / edited by Sophia Papaioannou, Andreas Serafim, Beatrice da Vela.

The Theatre of Justice contains 17 chapters that offer a holistic view of performance in Greek and Roman oratorical and political contexts. This holistic view consists of the examination of two areas of techniques. The first one relates to the delivery of speeches and texts: gesticulation, facial ex...

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Superior document:Mnemosyne Supplements, Volume 403
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Nijhoff,, 2017.
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; Volume 403.
Physical Description:1 online resource (367 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter / Sophia Papaioannou , Andreas Serafim and Beatrice da Vela
  • Introduction / Sophia Papaioannou , Andreas Serafim and Beatrice da Vela
  • Audience Reaction, Performance and the Exploitation of Delivery in the Courts and Assembly / Ian Worthington
  • ‘Conventions’ in/as Performance: Addressing the Audience in Selected Public Speeches of Demosthenes / Andreas Serafim
  • Would I Lie to You? Narrative and Performance in Isaios 6 / Brenda Griffith-Williams
  • The Orator and the Ghosts: Performing the Past in Fourth-Century Athens / Guy Westwood
  • Speech without Limits: Defining Informality in Republican Oratory / Catherine Steel
  • Ēthos and Logical Argument in Thucydides’ Assembly Debates / Christos Kremmydas
  • Elite Rhetoric and Self-Presentation: Metellus Numidicus Returns / Henriette van der Blom
  • Pitiable Dramas on the Podium of the Athenian Law Courts / Kostas Apostolakis
  • From the Stage to the Court: Rhetorical and Dramatic Performance in Donatus’ Commentary on Terence / Beatrice da Vela
  • Oratorical Performance in Pliny’s Letters / Kathryn Tempest
  • The Mind’s Theatre: Envy, Hybris and Enargeia in Demosthenes’ Against Meidias / Dimos Spatharas
  • How to “Act” in an Athenian Court: Emotions and Forensic Performance / Edward M. Harris
  • Roman Judges and Their Participation in the “Theatre of Justice” / Jon Hall
  • Style, Persona and Performance in Aeschines’ Prosecution of Timarchus / Christopher Carey
  • Narrative and Performance in the Speeches of Apollodoros / Konstantinos Kapparis
  • Public Performance and the Language of Antiphon’s Speeches / Alessandro Vatri
  • Bibliography / Sophia Papaioannou , Andreas Serafim and Beatrice da Vela
  • Indexes / Sophia Papaioannou , Andreas Serafim and Beatrice da Vela.