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<p>[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 3531003, member: 85693"]Interesting post - the ancients were far more careful about rhetoric, speech and gestures, than we are nowadays. The didn't have Twitter, lucky for them. </p><p><br /></p><p>I happen to be re-reading <i>Cacus and Marsyas in Etrusco-Roman Legend</i> by Jocelyn Penny Small (Princeton, 1982). She spends a lot of time describing the arm location of Marsyas on the denarius of Censorinus (my avatar) - it is not "the common pose of <i>adlocutio</i>..." (p. 71). She argues that Marsyas is shown looking for birds to perform an augury (I don't think this theory is universally accepted, but she makes a good argument, I thought). </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]938124[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>She spends a lot of time on coins, and makes the interesting observation that the denarius from 82 B.C. typically shows Marsyas' arm raised higher than his depictions on later Provincial bronze coins. I thinks she is right, based on my puny sample! </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]938125[/ATTACH]</p><p> Troas - time of Gallienus</p><p><br /></p><p> It's an interesting book - I highly recommend it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 3531003, member: 85693"]Interesting post - the ancients were far more careful about rhetoric, speech and gestures, than we are nowadays. The didn't have Twitter, lucky for them. I happen to be re-reading [I]Cacus and Marsyas in Etrusco-Roman Legend[/I] by Jocelyn Penny Small (Princeton, 1982). She spends a lot of time describing the arm location of Marsyas on the denarius of Censorinus (my avatar) - it is not "the common pose of [I]adlocutio[/I]..." (p. 71). She argues that Marsyas is shown looking for birds to perform an augury (I don't think this theory is universally accepted, but she makes a good argument, I thought). [ATTACH=full]938124[/ATTACH] She spends a lot of time on coins, and makes the interesting observation that the denarius from 82 B.C. typically shows Marsyas' arm raised higher than his depictions on later Provincial bronze coins. I thinks she is right, based on my puny sample! [ATTACH=full]938125[/ATTACH] Troas - time of Gallienus It's an interesting book - I highly recommend it.[/QUOTE]
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