Aspects of Performance in Greco-Roman Oratory and Rhetoric: A Theatre of Justice

367 Pages·2017·1.348 MB·English

by  Andreas Serafim, Beatrice da Vela, Sophia Papaioannou

TheTheatreofJustice
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The Theatre of Justice
Aspectsof PerformanceinGreco-RomanOratory
andRhetoric
Editedby
SophiaPapaioannou
AndreasSerafim
BeatricedaVela
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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.