William Guast
Biographic Data
| ID | 5644000 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Guast |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Guast |
| SIGNATURE | GUAST W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8230-1661 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Greek Declamation and the Roman Empire
A Greek declamation was an 'imaginary speech': a fictitious speech composed for a rhetorical scenario set in Classical Greece. Although such speeches began as rhetorical exercises, under the high Roman empire they developed into a full-blown prestigious genre in their own right. This first monograph on Greek declamation for nearly forty years re-evaluates a genre that was central to Greek imperial literature and to ancient and modern notions of t…
Lucian and Declamation
Given the attacks on rhetoric elsewhere in his corpus, it is a surprise to find Lucian declaiming. Scholars have explained this apparent contradiction using the periodization that Lucian himself offers, assigning the works to a supposed earlier, rhetorical phase. But literary periodization has rightly come to be regarded as problematic, and is rejected in this paper also. I study the Tyrannicida, and show that the work is quite at home in the cor…
Accepting the Omen
Traditional accounts of Greek declamation paint this important imperial genre as a flight from the alleged impotence of Greek cities under Roman rule into a nostalgic fantasy of the autonomy of the classical past. But there is clear evidence of declaimers using their works to refer to the world outside the fiction, often to the immediate performance context, and above all to themselves. This paper examines examples from Aelius Aristides, Philostr…
Lucian and Declamation
Given the attacks on rhetoric elsewhere in his corpus, it is a surprise to find Lucian declaiming. Scholars have explained this apparent contradiction using the periodization that Lucian himself offers, assigning the works to a supposed earlier, rhetorical phase. But literary periodization has rightly come to be regarded as problematic, and is rejected in this paper also. I study the Tyrannicida, and show that the work is quite at home in the cor…
Accepting the Omen
Traditional accounts of Greek declamation paint this important imperial genre as a flight from the alleged impotence of Greek cities under Roman rule into a nostalgic fantasy of the autonomy of the classical past. But there is clear evidence of declaimers using their works to refer to the world outside the fiction, often to the immediate performance context, and above all to themselves. This paper examines examples from Aelius Aristides, Philostr…
Accepting the Omen
Traditional accounts of Greek declamation paint this important imperial genre as a flight from the alleged impotence of Greek cities under Roman rule into a nostalgic fantasy of the autonomy of the classical past. But there is clear evidence of declaimers using their works to refer to the world outside the fiction, often to the immediate performance context, and above all to themselves. This paper examines examples from Aelius Aristides, Philostr…
Lucian and Declamation
Given the attacks on rhetoric elsewhere in his corpus, it is a surprise to find Lucian declaiming. Scholars have explained this apparent contradiction using the periodization that Lucian himself offers, assigning the works to a supposed earlier, rhetorical phase. But literary periodization has rightly come to be regarded as problematic, and is rejected in this paper also. I study the Tyrannicida, and show that the work is quite at home in the cor…
Greek Declamation and the Roman Empire
A Greek declamation was an 'imaginary speech': a fictitious speech composed for a rhetorical scenario set in Classical Greece. Although such speeches began as rhetorical exercises, under the high Roman empire they developed into a full-blown prestigious genre in their own right. This first monograph on Greek declamation for nearly forty years re-evaluates a genre that was central to Greek imperial literature and to ancient and modern notions of t…
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