From the perception of the good orator in treaties on Latin rhetoric to current practices. A preliminary study

Abstract

This article aims to build a bridge between Antiquity and the contemporary period. More precisely, we seek to realize an old fantasy of antiquity, namely to make the voices of ancient orators heard.

If no recording was possible, obviously, in ancient times, it will be a matter of reasoning by extrapolation, based on certain prosodic descriptions found in ancient texts.

Keywords

• perception
• Latin rhetoric
• institutional discourse
• prosody
• Antiquity