When a Gesture Was Expected
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-00263-7 (ISBN)
When a Gesture Was Expected encourages a deeper appreciation of ancient Greek poetry and prose by showing where a nod of the head or a wave of the hand can complete meaning in epic poetry and in tragedy, comedy, oratory, and in works of history and philosophy. All these works anticipated performing readers, and, as a result, they included prompts, places where a gesture could complete a sentence or amplify or comment on the written words. In this radical and highly accessible book, Alan Boegehold urges all readers to supplement the traditional avenues of classical philology with an awareness of the uses of nonverbal communication in Hellenic antiquity. This additional resource helps to explain some persistently confusing syntaxes and to make translations more accurate. It also imparts a living breath to these immortal texts. Where part of a work appears to be missing, or the syntax is irregular, or the words seem contradictory or perverse--without evidence of copyists' errors or physical damage--an ancient author may have been assuming that a performing reader would make the necessary clarifying gesture.
Boegehold offers analyses of many such instances in selected passages ranging from Homer to Aeschylus to Plato. He also presents a review of sources of information about such gestures in antiquity as well as thirty illustrations, some documenting millennia-long continuities in nonverbal communication.
Alan L. Boegehold, Professor of Classics, teaches Latin and Greek at Brown University. Within recent years he has published Agora 28. The Lawcourts at Athens; Athenian Identity and Civic Ideology, with Adele Scafuro; and In Simple Clothes, translations into English of eleven poems by Constantine Cavafy.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii NOTE TO THE READER xv LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xvii Introduction 3 ONE Nonverbal Communication 12 Circumstantial Notices in Literature 12 Illustrations 16 Continuities 20 Generally Understandable 22 Mostly Greek 26 Summary 28 TWO Some Attic Red-Figure Scenes 29 The Vote on the Arms of Achilles 29 Sociabilities 32 Come Here 33 Summary 35 THREE Homer 36 Demonstrative: Homer Iliad 16.844 36 "Incomplete" Conditional Sentence 37 Aposiopesis 38 Gesture for Apodosis 39 Gesture for Protasis 45 Summary 46 FOUR Archaic Poets 48 Archilochus 48 Pindar 50 Summary 52 FIVE Tragedy 53 Aeschylus 54 Sophocles 57 Euripides 63 Summary 66 SIX Aristophanes 67 Quotation and Parody 67 Continuities: Curses! 73 Summary 77 SEVEN Orators 78 Forensic Oratory 78 Deliberative or Display Oratory 79 Alcidamas 80 Antiphon 80 Andocides 83 Lysias 85 Demosthenes 88 Lycurgus 90 The Law Code of Gortyn 91 Summary 93 EIGHT Historians 94 Herodotus 94 Thucydides 99 Xenophon 105 Summary 108 NINE Plato 110 Plato's Characters in Action 110 Summary 125 Conclusion 126 BIBLIOGRAPHY 131 ART INDEX 141 lNDEX LOCORUM 143 GENERAL INDEX 149
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.12.1999 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 30 b/w illus. |
| Verlagsort | New Jersey |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 197 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 425 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-691-00263-0 / 0691002630 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-00263-7 / 9780691002637 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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