Attic Oratory and Performance

ISBN-13: 9780367871277 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 144 str.

Andreas Serafim

Opis

In a society where public speech was integral to the decision-making process, and where all affairs pertaining to the community were the subject of democratic debate, the communication between the speaker and his audience in the public forum, whether the law-court or the Assembly, cannot be separated from the notion of performance. Attic Orat

Spis treści

Introduction

Current perspectives and approaches

What this book is about

Performance Studies and Attic oratory

Audience and speaker in the law-court

Four case studies

The Embassy Case

The Crown Case

Outline

Chapter 1. The Hermeneutic Framework: An Analytical Approach

The notion of performance: conceptual groundwork

Performance in the theatre and the law-court

Judicial oratory in/as performance: Aeschines 2, 3 and Demosthenes 18, 19

Constructed audience

Other strategies to influence the audience

Reconsidering ekphrasis through the lens of ancient theory

The depiction of litigants, ēthopoiia

Conceptual groundwork

The performative dimension of oratorical portraiture

Inter-generic portraiture

Hypocrisis – Delivery

Script, revision and extemporisation

A note on the use of ancient sources

Chapter 2. Construction and manipulation

Addresses to the audience and civic community

Law-court "Big Brother"!

Emotional appeals

Direct/explicit appeals to emotions

Indirect/inexplicit appeals to emotions

Defence versus prosecution

The language of performance: imperatives and questions

Chapter 3. Aeschines and Demosthenes in the Theatre of Justice

Political thespians in the law-court

The use of quotations

"He is proud of his voice": oral excess in the law-court

"Drive him away and hiss him out": inviting the audience reaction

Chapter 4. Ēthopoiia: an inter-generic portrayal of character

Comic or laughter-inducing ēthopoiia

Comic stereotyping

Inversion of tragedy into comedy

Ridiculing sexuality

Character portraiture: traged

O autorze

Andreas Serafim is a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at Trinity College Dublin and Adjunct Lecturer at the Open University of Cyprus. He has also been Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Cyprus (2014–2015) and Honorary Research Fellow (2013–2015) and Assistant Lecturer in Ancient Greek (2012–2013) at University College London.