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In this paper we will start from the basic hypothesis that Lycurgus’ selection of historical allusions in his oratory represents, above all, a reflection of his patriotic feelings and true moral beliefs. Lycurgus’ speeches are primarily in the service of the endangered polis and his high ethical principles. Thus, a large number of his accusations are based on his moral views of the current social and political situation rather than on any precise or legal argumentation. Therefore, our main intention is to examine to what extent Lycurgus’ digressions to the past history of Athens were a powerful weapon of persuasion in his oratory, especially in his speech Against Leocrates.

Brendan Evans

Silvia Montiglio

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.

Frances Ferguson

Abstract “Persuasion: Oratory and the Novel” opens by considering Adam Smith’s disparagement of Cicero for highlighting his own authority. While it is not clear that Samuel Richardson knew of Smith’s thinking at the time he was writing and publishing Clarissa, Smith’s discussion chimes with Richardson’s recessive authorship and promotion of the words of the characters themselves to centrality. Moreover, Richardson’s work as the printer of record for the House of Commons would have made him acquainted with the expansion of court reporting as Thomas Gurney launched it with shorthand in the Old Bailey, capturing the exact words of a range of different speakers. Shorthand technology, once a means for preserving the words of a few, became the means of preserving the exact words of many. It also forwarded Richardson in developing Clarissa as a high-water mark for the multi-voiced novel.

Iris Smith Fischer

Abstract: Peirce's "Lesson in Elocution" (written ca. 1892) provides insight into his ideas on continuity and community through his knowledge of performance cultures such as theatre, elocution, rhetoric, and declamation. This unpublished manuscript constitutes the extant part of an application Peirce drafted to the Episcopal Church's General Theological Seminary for the position of elocution instructor. Continuing Henry C. Johnson, Jr.'s account (published in Transactions [2006] vol. 42, no. 4) of the Lesson as evidence of Peirce's religious practices, this article explores the Lesson as demonstration of his performance knowledge and experience. What would Peirce have brought as philosopher and scientist to the teaching of elocution? Conversely, what did his performance knowledge bring to his work on continuity and community? Outlining significant differences between Peirce's semiotic approach and that of the Seminary's then-current instructor, Francis Thayer Russell, the article argues, employing selected performance theory concepts, that performance often operates in semiosis itself, as Peirce defined it.

Braj Mohan

Judson Herrman

Anthony Corbeill

AbstractThis chapter has two parts. The first offers an imaginative reconstruction, in English, of a no longer extant contional speech by Publius Clodius Pulcher, delivered prior to Cicero’s own surviving speech De haruspicum responsis (‘On the responses of the haruspices,’ Spring 56 bc). This reconstruction is based on fragments derived from the Ciceronian oration, supplemented by examples of anti-Ciceronian invective drawn from other ancient sources. The second part offers a detailed analysis of the language and rhetoric of the Clodian fragments of the speech, situating each into a hypothetical line of reasoning based on Cicero’s own argument and on recent political and religious events. At least seven fragments from Clodius’s contio are identified, none of which appears in Malcovati’s Oratorum Romanorum Fragmenta Liberae Rei Publicae.

Konstantinos Kapparis, Ilias Arnaoutoglou, Dimos Spatharas

Victoria Wohl

George A. Kennedy