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When a gesture was expected : a selection of examples from archaic and classical Greek literature

Title
When a gesture was expected : a selection of examples from archaic and classical Greek literature / Alan L. Boegehold.
Author
Boegehold, Alan L. (Alan Lindley)
Publication
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1999.

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Description
xiv, 154 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  • " ... 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 ...
  • 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."--Publisher's website.
Subject
  • Greek literature > History and criticism
  • Gesture in literature
  • Nonverbal communication in literature
  • Body language in literature
  • Gesture > Greece > History
  • Gesture in motion pictures
  • 18.43 ancient Greek literature
  • Gesture in motion pictures
  • Body language in literature
  • Gesture
  • Gesture in literature
  • Greek literature
  • Nonverbal communication in literature
  • Deklamation
  • Gestik
  • Griechisch
  • Literatur
  • Letterkunde
  • Grieks
  • Declamaties
  • Gebaren
  • Tekstinterpretatie
  • Literatura grega clássica (história e crítica)
  • Comunicação não-verbal (história) > Grécia antiga
  • Gestos (história) > Grécia antiga
  • Greece
  • Griechisch
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-140) and indexes.
Contents
1. Nonverbal Communication. Circumstantial Notices in Literature. Illustrations. Continuities. Generally Understandable. Mostly Greek -- 2. Some Attic Red-Figure Scenes. The Vote on the Arms of Achilles. Sociabilities. Come Here -- 3. Homer. Demonstrative: Homer Iliad 16.844. "Incomplete" Conditional Sentence. Aposiopesis. Gesture for Apodosis. Gesture for Protasis -- 4. Archaic Poets. Archilochus. Pindar -- 5. Tragedy. Aeschylus. Sophocles. Euripides -- 6. Aristophanes. Quotation and Parody. Continuities: Curses! -- 7. Orators. Forensic Oratory. Deliberative or Display Oratory. Alcidamas. Antiphon. Andocides. Lysias. Demosthenes. Lycurgus. The Law Code of Gortyn -- 8. Historians. Herodotus. Thucydides. Xenophon.
ISBN
  • 0691002630
  • 9780691002637
  • 9780691242224
  • 0691242224
LCCN
99014574
OCLC
  • on1172259684
  • 40954013
  • SCSB-865882
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library