Tribe.net. Local Connections Anat http://greecerome.tribe.net/thread/fdcdb328-d27f-445b-83a8-c30e3ae220f9#32824ac1-bdd9-42b9-9eba-98dcb842e271 2007-03-27T16:18:05Z 2007-03-27T16:18:05Z

Thank you very much :) Now I know much more about what I am looking for. Do you suppose I can find a list of such gestures and their specific meanings?

Anat 2007-03-27T16:18:05Z jheem http://greecerome.tribe.net/thread/fdcdb328-d27f-445b-83a8-c30e3ae220f9#da6c72d5-0af8-44f6-a795-bbfccca665ea 2007-03-25T21:12:05Z 2007-03-25T21:12:05Z

Not sure where HBO is getting it from, but there was something called chironomy (the law of the hand/gesture) that was a part of ancient rhetoric. (See Quintillian, Institutio Oratoria, I.xi.15.) "No one will deny that such details form a part of the art of delivery, nor divorce delivery from oratory; and there can be no justification for disdaining to learn what has got to be done, especially as chironomy, which, as the name shows, is the law of gesture, originated in heroic times and met with the p191approval of the greatest Greeks, not excepting Socrates himself, while it was placed by Plato among the virtues of a citizen and included by Chrysippus in his instructions relative to the education of children." It was a part of rhetoric up until the last century ...

jheem 2007-03-25T21:12:05Z Anat http://greecerome.tribe.net/thread/fdcdb328-d27f-445b-83a8-c30e3ae220f9#23fcbe5b-572e-4f56-9138-e8fdf0b351a6 2007-03-25T15:58:01Z 2007-03-25T15:58:01Z

hi guys, I'm watching HBO's Rome for some time now, & I've wondered, where are the hand gestures taken from and what do they mean? Anybody got an idea? tnx, Anat

Anat 2007-03-25T15:58:01Z