Public Speech and Community in the Euboicus
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23637499 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Ma (0009-0006-3237-296X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Pages | 108-124 |
| Publication date | 2000-11-23 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Dio Chrysostom (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780199243594.003.0005 |
| OpenAlex | W4388379033 |
| ISBN | 9780199243594 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
A complicated little social drama: an assembly-meeting in a Greek polis. The actors and the events are familiar enough: rhetores speaking before the assembled people; the assemblymen’s great roar of disapproval, clamour of praise, harsh, mocking laughter; the generation of psephismata, decrees proposed by speakers at the outcome of the debate, and voted on by the assembly; the close interrogation of a citizen by speakers and magistrates before the people. Familiar as they are, a detailed description of all these features would be interesting enough in the pages of a classical historian. But the present summary is drawn from a second-sophistic author, who transmits what purports to be the extended description (admittedly by a bemused witness) of a contemporary assembly-meeting: in this context, the scene is highly intriguing and deserves further thought.
Aesthetics · Art · Context (archaeology) · Drama · Interrogation · Laughter · Literature · Political science · Praise · Sociology · Witness · Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2024 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |