http://greecerome.tribe.net/thread/fdcdb328-d27f-445b-83a8-c30e3ae220f9?format=rss Tribe.net. Local Connections http://greecerome.tribe.net/thread/fdcdb328-d27f-445b-83a8-c30e3ae220f9#32824ac1-bdd9-42b9-9eba-98dcb842e271 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? Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:18:05 GMT http://greecerome.tribe.net/thread/fdcdb328-d27f-445b-83a8-c30e3ae220f9#32824ac1-bdd9-42b9-9eba-98dcb842e271 Anat 2007-03-27T16:18:05Z http://greecerome.tribe.net/thread/fdcdb328-d27f-445b-83a8-c30e3ae220f9#da6c72d5-0af8-44f6-a795-bbfccca665ea 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 ... Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:12:05 GMT http://greecerome.tribe.net/thread/fdcdb328-d27f-445b-83a8-c30e3ae220f9#da6c72d5-0af8-44f6-a795-bbfccca665ea jheem 2007-03-25T21:12:05Z http://greecerome.tribe.net/thread/fdcdb328-d27f-445b-83a8-c30e3ae220f9#23fcbe5b-572e-4f56-9138-e8fdf0b351a6 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 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:58:01 GMT http://greecerome.tribe.net/thread/fdcdb328-d27f-445b-83a8-c30e3ae220f9#23fcbe5b-572e-4f56-9138-e8fdf0b351a6 Anat 2007-03-25T15:58:01Z