Speech without limits: defining informality in Republican Oratory

Steel, C. (2017) Speech without limits: defining informality in Republican Oratory. In: Papaioannou, S., Serafim, A. and Da Vela, B. (eds.) The Theatre of Justice: Aspects of Performance in Greco-Roman Oratory and Rhetoric. Series: Mnemosyne supplements, monographs on Grek and Latin language and literature (403). Brill: Leiden, pp. 75-89. ISBN 9789004334649 (doi: 10.1163/9789004341876_007)

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Abstract

Roman forensic performance during the Republic period involved a combination of uninterrupted formal oratory with a range of other speech acts: witness evidence, cross-examination, interruptions, as well as non-verbal acts. This chapter explores this context to the textual record of republican oratory and analyses their importance in relation to the issue of the political significance of the courts in this period.

Item Type:Book Sections
Status:Published
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Steel, Professor Catherine
Authors: Steel, C.
Subjects:P Language and Literature > PA Classical philology
College/School:College of Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities > Classics
Publisher:Brill
ISBN:9789004334649
Copyright Holders:Copyright © 2017 Koninklijke Brill NV
First Published:First published in The Theatre of Justice: Aspects of Performance in Greco-Roman Oratory and Rhetoric: 75-89
Publisher Policy:Reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policy

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Project CodeAward NoProject NamePrincipal InvestigatorFunder's NameFunder RefLead Dept
565741The Fragments of Republican Roman OratoryCatherine SteelEuropean Research Council (ERC)UNSPECIFIEDHU - CLASSICS