{"product_id":"when-a-gesture-was-expected-9780691002637","title":"When a Gesture Was Expected","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAims to encourage 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. This book helps to explain some persistently confusing syntaxes and to make translations more accurate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this nearly organized, well written, and lucid study on non-verbal communication in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature, Professor Alan Boegehold offers interesting and helpful insights into the understanding of passages in both poetry and prose ... \"--James J. Clauss, Bryn Mawr Classical Review \"There is much to praise in this book. It has an original and creative thesis that provides new insight into some old problems ... Boegehold makes many perceptive and significant observations... This study is an excellent model of how to tease out new meaning from familiar texts.\"--Gregory S. Aldrete, Classical World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xi  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii  NOTE TO THE READER xv  LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xvii  Introduction 3  ONE Nonverbal Communication 12  Circumstantial Notices in Literature 12  Illustrations 16  Continuities 20  Generally Understandable 22  Mostly Greek 26  Summary 28  TWO Some Attic Red-Figure Scenes 29  The Vote on the Arms of Achilles 29  Sociabilities 32  Come Here 33  Summary 35  THREE Homer 36  Demonstrative: Homer Iliad 16.844 36  \"Incomplete\" Conditional Sentence 37  Aposiopesis 38  Gesture for Apodosis 39  Gesture for Protasis 45  Summary 46  FOUR Archaic Poets 48  Archilochus 48  Pindar 50  Summary 52  FIVE Tragedy 53  Aeschylus 54  Sophocles 57  Euripides 63  Summary 66  SIX Aristophanes 67  Quotation and Parody 67  Continuities: Curses! 73  Summary 77  SEVEN Orators 78  Forensic Oratory 78  Deliberative or Display Oratory 79  Alcidamas 80  Antiphon 80  Andocides 83  Lysias 85  Demosthenes 88  Lycurgus 90  The Law Code of Gortyn 91  Summary 93  EIGHT Historians 94  Herodotus 94  Thucydides 99  Xenophon 105  Summary 108  NINE Plato 110  Plato's Characters in Action 110  Summary 125  Conclusion 126  BIBLIOGRAPHY 131  ART INDEX 141  lNDEX LOCORUM 143  GENERAL INDEX 149","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403666858327,"sku":"9780691002637","price":71.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691002637.jpg?v=1730484198","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/when-a-gesture-was-expected-9780691002637","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}