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HELLENISTIC ORATORY
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Hellenistic Oratory
Continuity and Change
Edited by
CHRISTOS KREMMYDAS
and
KATHRYN TEMPEST
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Preface
This volume had its genesis in a conversation about future research
projects held in the corridor of the Classics Department at Royal
Holloway,UniversityofLondon,attheendofApril2007.Thetopic
of‘Hellenisticoratory’ mystifiedusat first:they werenot twowords
youwouldexpecttofindinthesamesentence.Yetaswediscussedthe
topicfurther,wethoughttheremightbeamplescopeforexploration;
graduallyourinterestsevolvedintoafull-scaleplanforaconference:
After Demosthenes, Continuity and Change in Hellenistic Oratory,
held in London, 2–3 July 2009. This conference was generously
supported by the Classical Association, the Hellenic Society, the
Institute of Classical Studies, and Royal Holloway University of
London,forwhichweshouldliketogivethanks.Wearealsograteful
to a number of senior colleagues for their generous support and
encouragement: in alphabetical order, Chris Carey, Mike Edwards,
Edith Hall, Jonathan Powell, Lene Rubinstein, and Graham Shipley.
They have all been extremely helpful, from the inception of the
conference idea through to the arduous process of editing this
volume.
Theconferencewouldnothavebeenthesamewithouttheinputof
ourenthusiasticandinsightfulparticipants,whoengagedinfriendly
butlivelydebatesafterthepapers,duringthebreaks,andoverdinner.
We hope that the papers in this volume capture something of the
conference’s atmosphere. One result of the conference was that it
broadenedthewaywethoughtaboutoratoryintheHellenisticperiod
and we wanted that to be reflected in the title of the published
collectionofpapers.Aswillbecomeclearerinwhatfollows,Hellenis-
tic Oratory should not be defined only by its relationship to its
Classicalheritage,butisasubjectworthyofstudyinitsownright.
OxfordUniversityPressembracedtheideaforthisvolumeenthu-
siastically.Wearethankfulforthepositivefeedbackwereceivedfrom
theanonymousreadersforthePressandbelievethatthevolumehas
especially benefited from their suggestion that we commission a
paper on Polybius and Hellenistic Oratory, an area which for prac-
tical reasons we had not been able to include in the conference
programme. Sadly, there were other papers which could not be
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includedwithinthescopeofthisvolume,buttheircontributiontothe
conferenceandthedevelopmentofourideasisherebyacknowledged.
In addition to our contributors, whose cooperation and patience
throughouthasbeenappreciated,weshouldliketoextendourthanks
tothreeextremelyefficientindividualsatOUP:HilaryO’Shea,Cathryn
Steele,andTarynDasNeves.
Finally,weshouldliketosingleouttwopeoplewhosesupportofall
kinds has made this project possible: Tasos Aidonis and Katerina
Sinopidou. The arrival of Yannis Kremmydas in the midst of the
editingprocesscausedafewchangestotheoriginalschedulebut,on
the whole, injected even more fun into what has been a thoroughly
enjoyablefiveyearsofworkingtogetheronthisproject.
London,1June2012 C.K.&K.L.T
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Table of Contents
ANoteonAbbreviations ix
ListofContributors x
Introduction:ExploringHellenisticOratory 1
ChristosKremmydasandKathrynTempest
PART I: HELLENISTIC ORATORY IN
RHETORICAL THEORY AND
LITERATURE
1. OratoryinPolybius’Histories 21
JohnThornton
2. DionysiusandIsaeus 43
MichaelJ.Edwards
3. TheArtofPersuasioninJason’sSpeeches:
ApolloniusofRhodes,Argonautica 51
EleniVolonaki
4. PraiseandPersuasion:TheRoleofRhetoricin
Theocritus’Poetry 71
GuntherMartin
5. Rhetoricin(theother)Menander 93
ChristopherCarey
6. RhetoricalActorsandOtherVersatileHellenisticVocalists 109
EdithHall
PART II: ORATORY IN THE HELLENISTIC
SCHOOLS AND ASSEMBLIES
7. HellenisticOratoryandtheEvidenceofRhetoricalExercises 139
ChristosKremmydas
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8. SpokenWords,WrittenSubmissions,andDiplomatic
Conventions:TheImportanceandImpactofOral
PerformanceinHellenisticInter-polisRelations 165
LeneRubinstein
9. Paradoxon,Enargeia,Empathy:HellenisticDecrees
andHellenisticOratory 201
AngelosChaniotis
PART III: CONTINUITY AND CONVERGENCE:
FROM GREECE TO ROME
10. TheEmbassyoftheThreePhilosopherstoRome
in155bc 219
J.G.F.Powell
11. StertinianRhetoric:Pre-ImperialStoicTheoryand
PracticeofPublicDiscourse 249
JulaWildberger
12. OratoryontheStageinRepublicanRome 277
GesineManuwald
13. HellenisticOratoryatRome:Cicero’sProMarcello 295
KathrynTempest
14. HellenisticOratoryandPaulofTarsus 319
StanleyE.Porter
Afterword:HellenisticOratoryinContext 361
GrahamShipley
Bibliography 369
GeneralIndex 407
IndexofPassagesDiscussed 414
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A Note on Abbreviations
ThereferencestoancientwritersforthemostpartfollowTheOxford
Classical Dictionary (third edition) and H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, A
Greek–English Lexicon (ninth edition with revised supplement),
Oxford 1996, apart from some abbreviations, such as biblical refer-
ences, which should be self-explanatory. References to periodicals
followL’AnnéePhilologique.
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List of Contributors
Christopher Carey is Professor of Greek at University College
London.
AngelosChaniotisisProfessorofAncientHistoryandClassicsatthe
InstituteofAdvancedStudy,PrincetonUniversity.
Michael J. Edwards is Chair of Classics at the University of Wales,
TrinitySt.David.
EdithHallisProfessorofClassicsatKing’sCollegeLondon.
Christos Kremmydas is Senior Lecturer in Greek History at Royal
Holloway,UniversityofLondon.
GesineManuwaldisProfessorofLatinatUniversityCollegeLondon.
GuntherMartinisamemberoftheInstituteforClassicalPhilology,
UniversityofBern.
Stanley E. Porter is Principal and Dean at McMaster Divinity Col-
lege,McMasterUniversity,Hamilton,Ontario.
Jonathan G. F. Powell is Professor of Latin at Royal Holloway,
UniversityofLondon.
Lene Rubinstein is Professor of Ancient History at Royal Holloway,
UniversityofLondon.
GrahamShipleyisProfessorofAncientHistoryattheUniversityof
Leicester.
Kathryn Tempest is Senior Lecturer in Latin Literature and Roman
HistoryattheUniversityofRoehampton.
John Thornton is Associate Professor in Roman History at the
UniversityofRome,LaSapienza.
EleniVolonakiisLecturerinAncientGreekLiteratureattheUniver-
sityofthePeloponnese,Kalamata.
Jula Wildberger is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature
attheAmericanUniversityinParis.
Description:Hellenistic oratory remains an elusive subject as not one Greek speech has survived from the end of the fourth century BC until the beginning of the first century AD. This collection of fourteen interdisciplinary essays offers a wide-ranging study of the different ways in which Hellenistic oratory c
