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Against Androtion (Demosthenes 22) Against Androtion (Demosthenes 22)
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Against Meidias (Demosthenes 21) Against Meidias (Demosthenes 21)
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4 Demosthenes and the Use of Disgust
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Published:November 2016
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Abstract
This chapter considers the exploitation of disgust language and emotions in two Demosthenic speeches, Against Androtion and Against Meidias. A swift survey of bdeluria and related Greek terms reveals above all the lack in classical Greek of an abstract term for the emotion of disgust. The two speeches are shown to use abusive terms (especially bdelyria and miaria words) that suggest responses of disgust or quasi-religious revulsion, but do not identify a specific emotional response to these terms and so make no appeal to a moral sense of “disgust” felt by “right-thinking people” as a justification for conviction. Disgust language is rather used to give emotional support to the explicit evocation of other emotions such as anger, hatred, and occasionally envy. In both speeches, it is accusations of violent, insulting, and antidemocratic abuse of citizens that produce the most effective vituperative language and the strongest suggestions of disgusting behavior.
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