Aspects of Performance in Greco-Roman Oratory and Rhetoric: A Theatre of Justice PDF
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TheTheatreofJustice Mnemosyne Supplements monographs on greek and latin language and literature ExecutiveEditor C.Pieper(LeidenUniversity) EditorialBoard A.Chaniotis(InstituteforAdvancedStudy,Princeton) K.M.Coleman(HarvardUniversity) I.J.F.deJong(UniversityofAmsterdam) T.Reinhardt(OxfordUniversity) volume403 Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedatbrill.com/mns The Theatre of Justice Aspectsof PerformanceinGreco-RomanOratory andRhetoric Editedby SophiaPapaioannou AndreasSerafim BeatricedaVela leiden | boston LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Papaioannou,Sophia,editor.|Serafim,Andreas,editor.|Vela,Beatriceda, editor. Title:Thetheatreofjustice:aspectsofperformanceinGreco-Romanoratoryand rhetoric/editedbySophiaPapaioannou,AndreasSerafim,BeatricedaVela. Othertitles:Mnemosyne,bibliothecaclassicaBatava.Supplementum;403. Description:Leiden;Boston:Brill,2017.|Series:MnemosyneSupplements; 403|Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. Identifiers:lccn2016058864(print)|lccn2016059921(ebook)|isbn 9789004334649(hardback:alk.paper)|isbn9789004341876(e-book) Subjects:lcsh:Rhetoric,Ancient.|Oratory,Ancient.|Classicalliterature– Historyandcriticism. Classification:lcc pa3038 .t45 2017(print)|lcc pa3038(ebook)| ddc808.00938–dc23 lcrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2016058864 TypefacefortheLatin,Greek,andCyrillicscripts:“Brill”.Seeanddownload:brill.com/brill-typeface. issn0169-8958 isbn978-90-04-33464-9(hardback) isbn978-90-04-34187-6(e-book) Copyright2017byKoninklijkeBrillnv,Leiden,TheNetherlands. KoninklijkeBrillnvincorporatestheimprintsBrill,BrillHes&DeGraaf,BrillNijhoff,BrillRodopiand HoteiPublishing. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,translated,storedinaretrievalsystem, ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recordingorotherwise, withoutpriorwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher. 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Contents Acknowledgements ix NotesonContributors x 1 Introduction 1 SophiaPapaioannou,AndreasSerafimandBeatricedaVela part 1 Speakers—Audience 2 AudienceReaction,PerformanceandtheExploitationofDeliveryin theCourtsandAssembly 13 IanWorthington 3 ‘Conventions’in/asPerformance:AddressingtheAudiencein SelectedPublicSpeechesofDemosthenes 26 AndreasSerafim 4 WouldILietoYou?NarrativeandPerformanceinIsaios6 42 BrendaGriffith-Williams 5 TheOratorandtheGhosts:PerformingthePastinFourth-Century Athens 57 GuyWestwood 6 SpeechwithoutLimits:DefiningInformalityinRepublican Oratory 75 CatherineSteel part 2 Ēthopoiia 7 ĒthosandLogicalArgumentinThucydides’AssemblyDebates 93 ChristosKremmydas vi contents 8 EliteRhetoricandSelf-Presentation:MetellusNumidicus Returns 114 HenriettevanderBlom part 3 Hypocrisis—Delivery—Actio 9 PitiableDramasonthePodiumoftheAthenianLawCourts 133 KostasApostolakis 10 FromtheStagetotheCourt:RhetoricalandDramaticPerformancein Donatus’CommentaryonTerence 157 BeatricedaVela 11 OratoricalPerformanceinPliny’sLetters 175 KathrynTempest part 4 EmotionsintheLaw-Court 12 TheMind’sTheatre:Envy,HybrisandEnargeiainDemosthenes’ AgainstMeidias 201 DimosSpatharas 13 Howto“Act”inanAthenianCourt:EmotionsandForensic Performance 223 EdwardM.Harris 14 RomanJudgesandTheirParticipationinthe“Theatreof Justice” 243 JonHall part 5 LanguageandStyleinPerformance 15 Style,PersonaandPerformanceinAeschines’Prosecutionof Timarchus 265 ChristopherCarey contents vii 16 NarrativeandPerformanceintheSpeechesofApollodoros 283 KonstantinosKapparis 17 PublicPerformanceandtheLanguageofAntiphon’sSpeeches 304 AlessandroVatri Bibliography 321 IndexLocorum 349 GeneralIndex 351 Acknowledgements Theseedof thisvolumederivesfromtheinternationalconference,“TheThe- atreofJustice:AspectsofPerformanceinGreco-RomanOratoryandRhetoric”, thusthetitleofthevolume.Thisconferencewasorganisedbytwooftheedi- tors,AndreasSerafimandBeatricedaVela,atUniversityCollegeLondon,April 2012.SophiaPapaioannoukindlyacceptedtheinvitationtojointheeditorial team. Beinglonginthemaking,thisvolumehasincurredinmanydebts.Thethree editorsofthisvolumeoweverymuchtotherespectedcolleagues,whobelieved inthisprojectandsupporteditwholeheartedly.ChristopherCarey(ucl)and MichaelEdwards(Roehampton),inspiringteachersandinfluentialscholarsof ancientoratory,supportedtheorganisationoftheconferencefromwhichthis volume originates and they generously shared their knowledge and enthusi- asm.IanWorthington,thekeynotespeakerattheoriginalevent,wasamong thefirstwhobelievedinthevalueandoriginalityof thisprojectandoffered invaluable insights about the demanding business of setting up a collective volume. Michael Gagarin (Texas-Austin) and Brenda Griffith-Williams (ucl) shouldalsobethankedforreadingandcommentingonpartsof thisvolume. Finally, thanks are due to the Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies and the DepartmentofGreekandLatinatUniversityCollegeLondon,forcoveringthe expensesoftheconferencethatallowedtheideaofthisvolumetogerminate andgrow. The biggest and warmest gratitude goes undeniably to the contributors to this volume. We have been fortunate to work alongside them from our initialinquiriesandtheoreticalmeanderings,andwehavebeendelightedto see how those exchanges of first ideas and outlines led to the formulation of chapters that improve our knowledge of performance in ancient Greco- Romanoratory.Theirscholarship,dedicationandknowledgeof performance and ancient oratory made our cooperation stimulating and enjoyable, while theirprofessionalismandpositiveattitudealleviatedthedistressandtension whenthingsweretough. AsSaintAmbroserightlyheld,“nodutyismoreurgentthanthatofreturning thanks”. Athens,Dublin,Cyprus,FlorenceandLondon October2016 Notes on Contributors KostasApostolakis isAssistantProfessorintheDepartmentofClassicsattheUniversityofCrete. ChristopherCarey isEmeritusProfessorofGreekatUniversityCollegeLondon. BrendaGriffith-Williams is an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Greek and Latin at UniversityCollegeLondon. JonHall isAssociateProfessorintheDepartmentofClassicsattheUniversityofOtago, NewZealand. EdwardM.Harris isResearchProfessorofAncientHistoryatDurhamUniversity. KonstantinosKapparis isAssociateProfessorofClassicsandDirectoroftheCentreforGreekStudies attheUniversityofFlorida. ChristosKremmydas isSeniorLecturerinGreekHistoryatRoyalHolloway,UniversityofLondon. SophiaPapaioannou is Associate Professor of Latin Literature at the National and Kapodistrian UniversityofAthens. AndreasSerafim is Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Cyprus and the Open University of Cyprus. DimosSpatharas is Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek in the Department of Classics at the UniversityofCrete.
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