Gestures and Acclamations in Ancient Rome Anne M. Van Leeuwen Focusing on under-examined contexts

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Gestures and Acclamations in Ancient Rome Anne M. Van Leeuwen Focusing on under-examined contextsLife 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 praise or condemnation. Unfortunately, many aspects of these performances have been lost. In the first in depth study of oratorical gestures and crowd