Oratory, Public Punishments, and Curse Tablets
Abstrak
Abstract The chapter is mainly focused on oratory. It argues that speakers charge their opponents with schadenfreude and seek to kindle the emotion against them, while they themselves steer clear of it. The orators wish to rouse certain emotions in their audience. Success in this area is vital for them, because their audiences are not made of passive listeners or readers but mostly of jurors or voters, who are average Athenians and whose verdict or vote can be strongly affected by their disposition. For the same reason, orators have everything to gain from going along with shared sensibilities. We can therefore take their treatment and appraisal of schadenfreude to find their listeners broadly in agreement, to meet and reinforce their expectations. Both because oratory is steeped in collective sentiments and because it is concerned with punishment, this chapter extends the discussion to the disposition of spectators at public punishments and to the recurrence of schadenfreude in curse tablets.
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Silvia Montiglio
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- 10.1093/9780198981473.003.0007
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