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Gestures and acclamations in ancient Rome

by Gregory S. Aldrete

1999 227 pages eng

"Life in Rome was relentlessly public, and oratory was at its heart. Orations were dramatic spectacles in which the speaker deployed an arsenal of rhetorical tricks and strategies aimed at arousing the emotions of the audience, and spectators responded vigorously and vocally with massed chants of pr…

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