The Bad Orator: Between Clumsy Delivery and Political Danger
Year: 2013
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Our understanding of the role that oratory played in Roman society and politics and the criteria applied to measure an orator’s performance and career, is partly based on ‘positive’ material: contemporary opinions on good oratory, positive instructions in the rhetorical handbooks, portrayals of the ideal orator. This chapter demonstrates what a systematic examination of such negative views reveals about Roman oratorical practice and attitudes to oratory. The ‘bad orator’ emerges as a figure who can be criticised on both technical and moral grounds.
Source: Oxford University Press eBooks
Author: Jakob Wisse
Language: English
Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4205679409