Gestures and acclamations in ancient Rome
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Author
Publication
1999 - Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland
Language
English
Word Count
56,750 words, Guess
Page Count
227 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL390427M
- ISBN-100801861322
- OCLC Control Number40602748
- OCLC Control Numbergesturesacclamat0000aldr
- Library of Congress Control Number98056501
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- Goodreads1846120
- LibraryThing780527
Classifications
- DDC875/.0109
- LCCPA6083 .A44 1999
Description
"Life in Rome was relentlessly public, and oratory was at its heart. Orations were dramatic spectacles in which the speaker deployed an arsenal of rhetorical tricks and strategies aimed at arousing the emotions of the audience, and spectators responded vigorously and vocally with massed chants of praise or condemnation. Unfortunately, many aspects of these performances have been lost. In the first in-depth study of oratorical gestures and crowd acclamations as methods of communication at public spectacles, Gregory Aldrete sets out to recreate these vital missing components and to recapture the original context of ancient spectacles as interactive, dramatic, and contentious public performances."--BOOK JACKET.
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Series Statement
- Ancient society and history
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