Gestures and Acclamations in Ancient Rome

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ID9289367
AuthorsGregory S Aldrete, Gregory Aldrete (corresponding author)
Year2003
Pages227
Publication date2003-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueGestures and acclamations in ancient Rome (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.56021/9780801861321
OpenAlexW4319589059
Open LibraryOL390427M
ISBN9780801861321
GOOGLE_BOOK_IDSXpzAAAAIAAJ
LanguageEN
Citations received73

"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

Art · Gesture · Artificial Intelligence · Classical Antiquity Studies · Communication · Computer Science · History · Law in Society and Culture · Psychology · Visual Culture and Art Theory · Ancient Oratory · Ancient Rhetoric · Audiences · Gesture in art · History and criticism · Latin language, grammar · Oral communication · Oratory, Ancient · politics and government · Rhetoric, Ancient · Rome · Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin

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