Startseite Altertumswissenschaften & Ägyptologie A Civic Style: The Use of μετέχειν Metaphors in Athenian Oratory
Artikel
Lizenziert
Nicht lizenziert Erfordert eine Authentifizierung

A Civic Style: The Use of μετέχειν Metaphors in Athenian Oratory

  • Jakub Filonik ORCID logo EMAIL logo
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 11. November 2022
Veröffentlichen auch Sie bei De Gruyter Brill

Abstract

This paper examines the language of ‘sharing in the polis’ common in Greek legal and political discourse, with a particular emphasis on its use in Athenian oratory. It explores the conceptual metaphors related to various forms of engagement in the socio-political framework of the city-state, such as μετέχειν τῆς πόλεως and μετεῖναι τῆς πόλεως (“having a share in the polis”), μετέχειν τῶν τῆς πόλεως (“having a share in the affairs of the polis”), μετέχειν τῶν κοινῶν (“having a share in public affairs”), and more context-specific variants of this phrasing used by orators in attempts to influence the audiences gathered in the political institutions of democratic Athens. Finally, it argues that crucial distinctions should be made in the understanding of these different expressions and in interpreting their meaning in different rhetorical, legal, and socio-political contexts.

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Brenda Griffith-Williams and the editors of this special issue for their sound and helpful notes on an earlier draft of this paper.

  1. Funding: Research co-financed by funds granted under the Research Excellence Initiative of the University of Silesia in Katowice.

Bibliography

Ando, C. (1999), “Was Rome a polis?”, in: ClAnt 18.1, 5–34.10.2307/25011091Suche in Google Scholar

Blok. J.H. (2013), “Citizenship, the Citizen Body, and its Assemblies”, in: H. Beck (ed.), A Companion to Ancient Greek Government, Malden, MA, 161–175.10.1002/9781118303214.ch11Suche in Google Scholar

Blok, J.H. (2017), Citizenship in Classical Athens, Cambridge.10.1017/9781139017916Suche in Google Scholar

Bougher, L.D. (2012), “The Case for Metaphor in Political Reasoning and Cognition”, in: Political Psychology 33.1, 145–163.10.1111/j.1467-9221.2011.00865.xSuche in Google Scholar

Brewer, P.R. (2001), “Value Words and Lizard Brains: Do Citizens Deliberate About Appeals to Their Core Values?”, in: Political Psychology 22.1, 45–64.10.1111/0162-895X.00225Suche in Google Scholar

Brock, R. (2013), Greek Political Imagery from Homer to Aristotle, London.Suche in Google Scholar

Burkholder, Th.R./Henry, D. (2009), “Criticism of Metaphor”, in: Kuypers 2009, 97–115.Suche in Google Scholar

Charteris-Black, J. (2004), Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis, Basingstoke-New York.10.1057/9780230000612Suche in Google Scholar

Charteris-Black, J. (2011), Politicians and Rhetoric: the Persuasive Power of Metaphor, Basingstoke-New York.10.1057/9780230319899Suche in Google Scholar

Charteris-Black, J. (2018), Analysing Political Speeches, 2nd ed., London.Suche in Google Scholar

Cook, B.L. (2012), “Swift-boating in Antiquity: Rhetorical Framing of the Good Citizen in Fourth-Century Athens”, in: Rhetorica 30.3, 219–251.10.1525/RH.2012.30.3.219Suche in Google Scholar

Deignan, A. (2005), Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics, Amsterdam-Philadelphia, PA.10.1075/celcr.6Suche in Google Scholar

Filonik, J. (2017), “Metaphorical Appeals to Civic Ethos in Lycurgus’ Against Leocrates”, in: L. Cecchet/A.Busetto (eds.), Citizens in the Graeco-Roman World: Aspects of Citizenship from the Archaic Period to AD 212, Leiden, 223–258.10.1163/9789004352612_011Suche in Google Scholar

Filonik, J. (2022), “Metaphors in Rhetoric: From Ancient Greek to 21st-century Politics”, in: S. Papaioannou/A. Serafim/M. Edwards (eds.), Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Ancient Rhetoric, Leiden, 454–485.10.1163/9789004470057_021Suche in Google Scholar

Filonik, J. (forthcoming), “Sharing in the Polis: Conceptualizing Classical Greek Citizenship”, in: J. Filonik/C. Plastow/R. Zelnick-Abramovitz (eds.), Citizenship in Antiquity, London.Suche in Google Scholar

Foss, S.K. (2018), Rhetorical Criticism: Exploration and Practice, 5th ed., Long Grove, IL.Suche in Google Scholar

Fröhlich, P. (2016), “La citoyenneté grecque entre Aristote et les modernes”, in: CCG 27, 91–136.10.3406/ccgg.2016.1863Suche in Google Scholar

Gauthier, P. (1974), “‘Générosité’ romaine et ‘avarice’ grecque: sur l’octroi du droit de cité”, in: Mélanges d’histoire ancienne offerts à William Seston, Paris, 207–215.Suche in Google Scholar

Geeraerts, D. (2010), Theories of Lexical Semantics, Oxford.10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198700302.001.0001Suche in Google Scholar

Gibson, C.A. (2002), Interpreting a Classic: Demosthenes and His Ancient Commentators, Berkeley.Suche in Google Scholar

Gill, Ch./Postlethwaite, N./Seaford, R. (eds.) (1998), Reciprocity in Ancient Greece, Oxford.10.1093/oso/9780198149972.001.0001Suche in Google Scholar

Halliwell, S. (1993), “Style & Sense in Aristotle’s Rhetoric Bk. 3”, in: RIPh 47, 184.1, 50–69.Suche in Google Scholar

Hansen, M. (1976), Apagoge, Endeixis and Ephegesis against Kakourgoi, Atimoi and Pheugontes: A Study in the Athenian Administration in the Fourth Century B.C., Odense.Suche in Google Scholar

Joyce, C. (2018), “Atimia and Outlawry in Archaic and Classical Greece”, in: Polis, the Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought 35, 33–60.10.1163/20512996-12340139Suche in Google Scholar

Joyce, C. (forthcoming), “Were Athenian Women Equal to Men as ‘Citizens’ in Democratic Athens?”, in: J. Filonik/C. Plastow/R. Zelnick-Abramovitz (eds.), Citizenship in Antiquity, London.Suche in Google Scholar

Kamen, D. (2013), Status in Classical Athens, Princeton-Oxford.10.23943/princeton/9780691138138.001.0001Suche in Google Scholar

Kosch, B.D. (2017), Reading Demosthenes, PhD Diss., University of Chicago.Suche in Google Scholar

Krennmayr, T./Steen, G. (2017), “VU Amsterdam Metaphor Corpus”, in: N. Ide/J. Pustejovsky (eds.), Handbook of Linguistic Annotation, Dordrecht, 1053–1071.10.1007/978-94-024-0881-2_39Suche in Google Scholar

Kuypers, J.A. (2009), Rhetorical Criticism: Perspectives in Action, Lanham, MD.Suche in Google Scholar

Luraghi, S. (2003), On the Meaning of Prepositions and Cases, Amsterdam-Philadelphia.10.1075/slcs.67Suche in Google Scholar

Musolff, A. (2016), Political Metaphor Analysis: Discourse and Scenarios, London-New York.Suche in Google Scholar

Novokhatko, A. (2014), “Metaphor (metaphorá), Ancient Theories of”, in: G.K. Giannakis et al. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics, Leiden-Boston, 414–418.Suche in Google Scholar

Reuchamps, M./Dodeigne, J./Perrez, J. (2018), “Changing Your Political Mind: The Impact of a Metaphor on Citizens’ Representations and Preferences for Federalism”, in: Regional and Federal Studies 28, 151–175.10.1080/13597566.2018.1433663Suche in Google Scholar

Semino, E. (2008), Metaphor in Discourse, Cambridge.10.1017/CBO9780511816802.015Suche in Google Scholar

Serafim, A. (2021), Religious Discourse in Attic Oratory and Politics, London-New York.10.4324/9780203703151Suche in Google Scholar

Steen, G. (2006), “Metaphor: Stylistic Approaches”, in: K. Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics, 2nd ed., Amsterdam, 51–57.10.1016/B0-08-044854-2/00525-3Suche in Google Scholar

Steen, G.J./Reijnierse, W.G./Burgers, C. (2014), “When Do Natural Language Metaphors Influence Reasoning? A Follow-up Study to Thibodeau and Boroditsky (2013)”, in: PLoS ONE 9, e113536.10.1371/journal.pone.0113536Suche in Google Scholar

Thibodeau, P.H./Boroditsky, L. (2013), “Natural Language Metaphors Covertly Influence Reasoning”, in: PLoS ONE 8, e52961.10.1371/journal.pone.0052961Suche in Google Scholar

Trevett, J.C. (1996), “Aristotle’s Knowledge of Athenian Oratory”, in: CQ 46.2, 371–379.10.1093/cq/46.2.371Suche in Google Scholar

van Hook, L. (1917), “Ψυχρότης ἢ τὸ ψυχρόν (Psuchrotēs ē to psuchron)”, in: CPh 12.1, 68–76.10.1086/358885Suche in Google Scholar

Vatri, A. (2018), “Psycholinguistics and the Classical Languages: Reconstructing Native Comprehension”, in: P. Meineck/W.M. Short/J. Devereaux (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Cognitive Theory, London-New York, 93–106.10.4324/9781315691398-6Suche in Google Scholar

Vlassopoulos, K. (2007), “Free Spaces: Identity, Experience, and Democracy in Classical Athens”, in: CQ 57.1, 33–52.10.1017/S0009838807000031Suche in Google Scholar

Wohl, V. (2009), “Rhetoric of the Athenian Citizen”, in: E. Gunderson (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rhetoric, Cambridge, 162–177.10.1017/CCOL9780521860543.011Suche in Google Scholar

Wohl, V. (2010), Law’s Cosmos: Juridical Discourse in Athenian Forensic Oratory, Cambridge-New York.Suche in Google Scholar

Published Online: 2022-11-11
Published in Print: 2022-11-25

© 2022 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston

Heruntergeladen am 17.12.2025 von https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/tc-2022-0011/html
Button zum nach oben scrollen