Aspects of Performance in Greco-Roman Oratory and Rhetoric: A Theatre of Justice

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The Theatre of Justice contains 17 chapters that offer a holistic view of performance in Greek and Roman oratorical and political contexts. Introduction / Sophia Papaioannou, Andreas Serafim and Beatrice da Vela -- Speakers-audience -- Audience reaction, performance and the exploitation of delivery in the courts and assembly / Ian Worthington -- 'Conventions' in/as performance: addressing the audience in selected public speeches of Demosthenes / Andreas Serafim -- Would I lie to you? : narrative and performance in Isaios 6 / Brenda Griffith-Williams -- The orator and the ghosts: performing the past in fourth-century Athens / Guy Westwood -- Speech without limits: defining informality in republican oratory / Catherine Steel -- Ethopoiia -- Ethos and logical argument in Thucydides' assembly debates / Christos Kremmydas -- Elite rhetoric and self-presentation: Metellus Numidicus returns / Henriette van der Blom -- Hypocrisis-delivery-actio -- Pitiable dramas on the podium of the Athenian law courts / Kostas Apostolakis -- From the stage to the court: rhetorical and dramatic performance in Donatus' commentary on Terence / Beatrice da Vela -- Oratorical performance in Pliny's letters / Kathryn Tempest -- Emotions in the law-court -- The mind's theatre: envy, hybris and enargeia in Demosthenes' Against Meidias / Dimos Spatharas -- How to "act" in an Athenian court: emotions and forensic performance / Edward M. Harris -- Roman judges and their participation in the "theatre of justice" / Jon Hall -- Language and style in performance -- Style, person, and performance in Aeschines' prosecution of Timarchos / Christopher Carey -- Narrative and performance in the speeches of Apollodoros / Konstantinos Kapparis -- Public performance and the language of Antiphon's speeches / Alessandro Vatri.