Lucian and Declamation

Guast, William

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“…There are, of course, fictitious speeches in other Lucianic works, such as the Bis accusatus, but these are not declamations proper. On Lucian and declamation, see Guast (2018). 5 Bompaire (1958) 245-46, Heath (1995) 175-78, Tomassi (2015), Guast (2018).…”

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“…On Lucian and declamation, see Guast (2018). 5 Bompaire (1958) 245-46, Heath (1995) 175-78, Tomassi (2015), Guast (2018). 6 Berry and Heath (1997) 409-14. therefore has the right to deliver the eulogy over the dead.…”

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“…Bompaire (1958) 242-46, Reardon (1971 110. In Guast (2018) 200-01 I argued that the Tyrannicida also gently mocks the practice of declamation, and suggested that its brevity may contribute to the satire. texts are excerpts from now-lost full declamations, their brevity and stylistic plainness would not be the result of some unintended corruption, but rather the consequence of deliberate didactic choices.…”

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Greek Declamation Beyond Philostratus’ Second Sophistic

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2019

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This article examines the surviving Greek declamations of the first to third century AD. They are found to be at odds with Philostratus’ familiar picture of the genre in respect of their brevity and stylistic simplicity. Explanations in terms of forgery/misattribution, textual adulteration of some form or the youth of the declaimers at the time of composition are rejected, and it is concluded rather that Philostratus’ picture of the genre is significantly distorted. Specifically, the Vitae sophistarum (1) omit declamations composed for didactic ends in favour of show declamations and (2) even among show declamations focus almost exclusively on the more florid end of the stylistic spectrum.

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The Declamatory Tradition of Normative Inquiry: Towards an Aesthetic History of Legal and Political Thought

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This paper offers an example of what may be called 'an aesthetic history of legal and political thought'. Such a task engages in theorising historically the features of aesthetic traditions that enable and further normative inquiry, i.e. an exploration of the norms and values that might contribute to the good life and the common good. The three features offered in this paper as useful to identifying such aesthetic traditions are communality and interactivity, experimentalism, and exemplarity. The paper shows how each of these features is present, in particular ways, in one specific aesthetic tradition, namely the declamatory tradition. Tracing the declamatory tradition back to Ancient Rome, and examining its influence in the English Renaissance, especially in Sir Thomas More's response to Lucian's declamatory thema, Tyrannicide, the paper argues that the particular ways in which declamatory practice combines the above three features enables those engaged in it to pursue normative inquiry. The paper argues that the integration of these three features is especially visible in one aspect of declamatory practice, namely the introduction and exchange of colores, i.e. changes in the narrative, introduced by declaimers and their audiences, which shed light on the possible motivation of a character, and thereby also invited shifts in affective allegiance and evaluative perspective. The paper argues that it is in large part through such introduction and exchange of colores that the declamatory tradition enables and furthers normative inquiry, and thus also offers a good reason for including the declamatory tradition in 'an aesthetic history of legal and political thought'.

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Lucian and Declamation

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Greek Declamation Beyond Philostratus’ Second Sophistic

Greek Declamation Beyond Philostratus’ Second Sophistic

The Declamatory Tradition of Normative Inquiry: Towards an Aesthetic History of Legal and Political Thought

Redeemed Tyrants and Complacent Priests: For a Rereading of Lucian’s Phalarides

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