Silent Eloquence: Rhetoric and Culture from Quintilian to the Twin Towers

Rhetoric and Culture from Quintilian to the Twin Towers

By: Ismeme Lada-Richards

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Paperback | 25 May 2007 | Edition Number 1

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One of the greatest aesthetic attractions in the ancient world was pantomime dancing, a ballet-style entertainment in which a silent, solo dancer incarnated a series of mythological characters to the accompaniment of music and sung narrative. Looking at a multitude of texts and particularly Lucian's "On the Dance", a dialogue written at the height of pantomime's popularity, this innovative cultural study of the genre offers a radical reassessment of its importance in the symbolic economy of imperial and later antiquity. Rather than being trivial or lowbrow, pantomime was thoroughly enmeshed in wider social discourses on morality and sexuality, gender and desire and a key player in the fierce battles about education and culture that raged in the ancient world. A close reading of primary sources, judiciously interlaced with a wealth of interdisciplinary perspectives, makes this challenging book essential for anyone interested in the performance culture of the Greek and Roman world.

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Editors' Foreword	p. 7
Acknowledgements	p. 9
Abbreviations	p. 10
Introduction: Setting the Scene	p. 12
Pantomime Dancing Through the Centuries	p. 19
Pantomime and Other Entertainments: Cross-Fertilisations and Affiliations	p. 29
'Technologies' of the Body: The Pantomime's Art	p. 38
Pantomimes and their Body 'Politic'	p. 56
Pantomimes and their Body Dangerous	p. 64
Emancipating Pantomime: Lycinus' Speech in Lucian's On the Dance	p. 79
Lucian's On the Dance or The Sophist's Pantomime	p. 98
Pantomime, the Intellectual's Equal? The Genre Through the Eyes of the Cultural Elites	p. 104
A 'Margin of Mess': Pantomime and the Strategies of Elite Cultural Self-definition	p. 113
Dancing on the Brink: The 'Hybrid' Discourse of Pantomime Dancing	p. 127
Who is Afraid of Pantomime Dancers?	p. 135
Controlling Theatre in the Imperial East: the Sophist and the Pantomime	p. 152
Epilogue	p. 161
Postscript: The Afterlife of Ancient Pantomime and Lucian's On the Dance	p. 163
Notes	p. 175
Bibliography	p. 217
Index Locorum	p. 230
General Index	p. 234
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Silent Eloquence: Rhetoric and Culture from Quintilian to the Twin Towers

Rhetoric and Culture from Quintilian to the Twin Towers

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