{"id":{"repo_id":"uwtsd","oai_identifier":"oai:repository.uwtsd.ac.uk:1186"},"canonical_url":"https://search.dev.ndltd.org/etd/uwtsd/oai:repository.uwtsd.ac.uk:1186","repository":{"repo_id":"uwtsd","name":"University of Wales Trinity Saint David","base_url":"https://repository.uwtsd.ac.uk/cgi/oai2"},"display":{"title":"Shame in Athenian Oratory","abstract":"My study explores the use of shame as an oratorical and rhetorical technique designed to lead the jurors during a court trial to sympathise with the speakers of the following orations of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.: Lysias’ On the Murder of Eratosthenes (1), Against Simon (3), Demosthenes’ Against Conon (54) and Aeschines’ Against Timarchus (1). The usage of shame in oratory has not been extensively studied due to the potential difficulty in reconstructing how the jurors may have reacted during a court trial. However, by using a linguistic approach to the analysis of the role of shame in Athenian oratory, it will be possible to determine how the use of shame could have affected the jurors’ mind. This idea will be argued by the detection of a two-fold feeling of shame: passive and active. Passive shame will be seen in one’s target who due to the outrages suffered at the hands of his perpetrator, experienced a feeling of shame and loss of honour. On the other hand, active shame will be perceived through those people who were considered immoral in the eyes of the Athenians since they intentionally dishonoured and humiliated their targets. Clear examples that can support this latter type of shame can be found in the matters that the speeches chosen for this project explore e.g. adultery in Lysias 1, shameful outrages which the speakers in Lysias 3 and Demosthenes 54 were subject to and in the corrupted lifestyle of Timarchus in Aeschines 1. From the analysis of Lysias 1, 3, Demosthenes 54 and Aeschines 1 it will also emerge that both typologies of shame are emphasised in the speeches through the usage of αἰσχρός, αἰσχύνη, αἰσχύνω, ὑβρίζω and ὕβρις.","abstract_html":"My study explores the use of shame as an oratorical and rhetorical technique designed to lead the jurors during a court trial to sympathise with the speakers of the following orations of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.: Lysias’ On the Murder of Eratosthenes (1), Against Simon (3), Demosthenes’ Against Conon (54) and Aeschines’ Against Timarchus (1). The usage of shame in oratory has not been extensively studied due to the potential difficulty in reconstructing how the jurors may have reacted during a court trial. However, by using a linguistic approach to the analysis of the role of shame in Athenian oratory, it will be possible to determine how the use of shame could have affected the jurors’ mind. This idea will be argued by the detection of a two-fold feeling of shame: passive and active. Passive shame will be seen in one’s target who due to the outrages suffered at the hands of his perpetrator, experienced a feeling of shame and loss of honour. On the other hand, active shame will be perceived through those people who were considered immoral in the eyes of the Athenians since they intentionally dishonoured and humiliated their targets. Clear examples that can support this latter type of shame can be found in the matters that the speeches chosen for this project explore e.g. adultery in Lysias 1, shameful outrages which the speakers in Lysias 3 and Demosthenes 54 were subject to and in the corrupted lifestyle of Timarchus in Aeschines 1. From the analysis of Lysias 1, 3, Demosthenes 54 and Aeschines 1 it will also emerge that both typologies of shame are emphasised in the speeches through the usage of αἰσχρός, αἰσχύνη, αἰσχύνω, ὑβρίζω and ὕβρις.","abstract_has_math":false,"creators":["Bianchi Mancini, Sofia"],"institution":"University of Wales Trinity Saint David","degree_name":"mres","degree_level":"masters","degree_discipline":null,"degree_department":null,"school":null,"contributors":[],"advisors":[],"committee_chairs":[],"committee_members":[],"year":2020,"date_issued":"2020-02","date_published":"2020-02","updated_at":"2026-07-24T05:52:50Z","subjects":["PA Ieitheg glasurol"],"languages":[],"rights":[],"rights_urls":[],"identifier_entries":[{"key":"dc:identifier.grantnumber","label":"Dc Identifier Grantnumber","values":["UWTSD"],"render_values":[{"text":"UWTSD","href":null,"code":true}]}]},"links":{"outbound_url":"https://doi.org/10.82227/repository.uwtsd.ac.uk.00001186","outbound_label":"DOI","outbound_source":"dc:identifier.doi"},"metadata_groups":[{"id":"people","label":"People","entries":[{"key":"dc:contributor.sponsor","label":"Sponsor","values":["University of Wales Trinity Saint David"]},{"key":"dc:creator","label":"Author","values":["Bianchi Mancini, Sofia"]}]},{"id":"academic_context","label":"Academic Context","entries":[{"key":"dc:date","label":"Dc Date","values":["2020-02-04"]},{"key":"dc:date.issued","label":"Date","values":["2020-02"]},{"key":"dc:publisher.commercial","label":"Dc Publisher Commercial","values":["University of Wales Trinity Saint David"]},{"key":"dc:publisher.department","label":"Dc Publisher Department","values":["Traethodau Meistr","Institute of Education and Humanities: Humanities and Social Sciences"]},{"key":"dc:publisher.institution","label":"Dc Publisher Institution","values":["University of Wales Trinity Saint David"]},{"key":"dc:relation.isreferencedby","label":"Dc Relation Isreferencedby","values":["https://repository.uwtsd.ac.uk/id/eprint/1186/"]},{"key":"dc:type","label":"Dc Type","values":["Gosodiad"]},{"key":"dc:type.qualificationlevel","label":"Dc Type Qualificationlevel","values":["masters"]},{"key":"dc:type.qualificationname","label":"Dc Type Qualificationname","values":["mres"]}]},{"id":"subjects_keywords","label":"Subjects and Keywords","entries":[{"key":"dc:subject","label":"Dc Subject","values":["PA Ieitheg glasurol"]}]},{"id":"identifiers","label":"Identifiers","entries":[{"key":"dc:identifier.doi","label":"DOI","values":["10.82227/repository.uwtsd.ac.uk.00001186"]},{"key":"dc:identifier.grantnumber","label":"Dc Identifier Grantnumber","values":["UWTSD"]},{"key":"dc:identifier.uri","label":"Identifier URI","values":["https://repository.uwtsd.ac.uk/id/eprint/1186/1/Bianchi%20Mancini%2C%20Sofia%20%282018%29%20Shame.pdf"]}]},{"id":"additional","label":"Additional Metadata","entries":[{"key":"dc:description.abstract","label":"Abstract","values":["My study explores the use of shame as an oratorical and rhetorical technique designed to lead the jurors during a court trial to sympathise with the speakers of the following orations of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.: Lysias’ On the Murder of Eratosthenes (1), Against Simon (3), Demosthenes’ Against Conon (54) and Aeschines’ Against Timarchus (1). The usage of shame in oratory has not been extensively studied due to the potential difficulty in reconstructing how the jurors may have reacted during a court trial. However, by using a linguistic approach to the analysis of the role of shame in Athenian oratory, it will be possible to determine how the use of shame could have affected the jurors’ mind. This idea will be argued by the detection of a two-fold feeling of shame: passive and active. Passive shame will be seen in one’s target who due to the outrages suffered at the hands of his perpetrator, experienced a feeling of shame and loss of honour. On the other hand, active shame will be perceived through those people who were considered immoral in the eyes of the Athenians since they intentionally dishonoured and humiliated their targets. Clear examples that can support this latter type of shame can be found in the matters that the speeches chosen for this project explore e.g. adultery in Lysias 1, shameful outrages which the speakers in Lysias 3 and Demosthenes 54 were subject to and in the corrupted lifestyle of Timarchus in Aeschines 1. From the analysis of Lysias 1, 3, Demosthenes 54 and Aeschines 1 it will also emerge that both typologies of shame are emphasised in the speeches through the usage of αἰσχρός, αἰσχύνη, αἰσχύνω, ὑβρίζω and ὕβρις."]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["text"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["Shame in Athenian Oratory"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor.sponsor":["University of Wales Trinity Saint David"],"dc:creator":["Bianchi Mancini, Sofia"],"dc:date":["2020-02-04"],"dc:date.issued":["2020-02"],"dc:description.abstract":["My study explores the use of shame as an oratorical and rhetorical technique designed to lead the jurors during a court trial to sympathise with the speakers of the following orations of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.: Lysias’ On the Murder of Eratosthenes (1), Against Simon (3), Demosthenes’ Against Conon (54) and Aeschines’ Against Timarchus (1). The usage of shame in oratory has not been extensively studied due to the potential difficulty in reconstructing how the jurors may have reacted during a court trial. However, by using a linguistic approach to the analysis of the role of shame in Athenian oratory, it will be possible to determine how the use of shame could have affected the jurors’ mind. This idea will be argued by the detection of a two-fold feeling of shame: passive and active. Passive shame will be seen in one’s target who due to the outrages suffered at the hands of his perpetrator, experienced a feeling of shame and loss of honour. On the other hand, active shame will be perceived through those people who were considered immoral in the eyes of the Athenians since they intentionally dishonoured and humiliated their targets. Clear examples that can support this latter type of shame can be found in the matters that the speeches chosen for this project explore e.g. adultery in Lysias 1, shameful outrages which the speakers in Lysias 3 and Demosthenes 54 were subject to and in the corrupted lifestyle of Timarchus in Aeschines 1. From the analysis of Lysias 1, 3, Demosthenes 54 and Aeschines 1 it will also emerge that both typologies of shame are emphasised in the speeches through the usage of αἰσχρός, αἰσχύνη, αἰσχύνω, ὑβρίζω and ὕβρις."],"dc:format":["text"],"dc:identifier.doi":["10.82227/repository.uwtsd.ac.uk.00001186"],"dc:identifier.grantnumber":["UWTSD"],"dc:identifier.uri":["https://repository.uwtsd.ac.uk/id/eprint/1186/1/Bianchi%20Mancini%2C%20Sofia%20%282018%29%20Shame.pdf"],"dc:publisher.commercial":["University of Wales Trinity Saint David"],"dc:publisher.department":["Traethodau Meistr","Institute of Education and Humanities: Humanities and Social Sciences"],"dc:publisher.institution":["University of Wales Trinity Saint David"],"dc:relation.isreferencedby":["https://repository.uwtsd.ac.uk/id/eprint/1186/"],"dc:subject":["PA Ieitheg glasurol"],"dc:title":["Shame in Athenian Oratory"],"dc:type":["Gosodiad"],"dc:type.qualificationlevel":["masters"],"dc:type.qualificationname":["mres"]},"updated_at":"2026-07-24T05:52:50Z"}