{"product_id":"when-a-gesture-was-expected-a-selection-of-examples-from-archaic-and-classical-greek-literature-9780691242224","title":"When a Gesture Was Expected: A Selection of Examples from Archaic and Classical Greek Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA boldly innovative study of nonverbal communication in the poetry and prose of Hellenic antiquity\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen a Gesture Was Expected\u003c\/i\u003e encourages a deeper appreciation of ancient Greek poetry and prose by showing where a nod of the head or a wave of the hand can complete meaning in epic poetry and in tragedy, comedy, oratory, and in works of history and philosophy. All these works anticipated performing readers, and, as a result, they included prompts, places where a gesture could complete a sentence or amplify or comment on the written words. In this radical and highly accessible book, Alan Boegehold urges all readers to supplement the traditional avenues of classical philology with an awareness of the uses of nonverbal communication in Hellenic antiquity. This additional resource helps to explain some persistently confusing syntaxes and to make translations more accurate. It also imparts a living breath to these immortal texts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhere part of a work appears to be missing, or the syntax is irregular, or the words seem contradictory or perverse--without evidence of copyists' errors or physical damage--an ancient author may have been assuming that a performing reader would make the necessary clarifying gesture. Boegehold offers analyses of many such instances in selected passages ranging from Homer to Aeschylus to Plato. He also presents a review of sources of information about such gestures in antiquity as well as thirty illustrations, some documenting millennia-long continuities in nonverbal communication.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-11967057\"\u003eAlan L. Boegehold\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/13\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691242224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691242224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LIT\"\u003eLiterary Criticism\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LIT004190\"\u003eAncient and Classical\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PER\"\u003ePerforming Arts\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PER011020\"\u003eTheater | History \u0026amp; Criticism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlan L. Boegehold, \u003c\/b\u003e Professor of Classics, teaches Latin and Greek at Brown University. Within recent years he has published \u003ci\u003eAgora 28. The Lawcourts at Athens\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAthenian Identity and Civic Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e, with Adele Scafuro; and \u003ci\u003eIn Simple Clothes\u003c\/i\u003e, translations into English of eleven poems by Constantine Cavafy\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44442131136749,"sku":"9780691242224","price":71.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_8d913552-3500-4610-8152-f788ac3eba9e.jpg?v=1700200988","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/when-a-gesture-was-expected-a-selection-of-examples-from-archaic-and-classical-greek-literature-9780691242224","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}