How was oration performed in ancient times?
Upvote:2
Translated suttas talk of a "roar" in an assembly -- maybe that's metaphorical but maybe not entirely.
I think of a crowd of 500 as being large. Maybe with that many you choose a suitable venue (unlike other suttas which are dialogs with a just a few people). The acoustics of the place could be important. The Ancient Greek Theatre of Epidaurus has famously good acoustics and seats 14,000 -- so 500 is plausible.
500 seated one per square metre is a semi-circle with a radius of 20 metres. I think that being heard at that distance is just raising your voice, talking loudly, not even shouting.
This paper claims that the number of people who could hear speeches at the forum at Rome would be between 400 and 1400 -- standing -- depending on how noisy the crowd was:
I think that (the Roman forum) is bad acoustics, with stone walls echoing. So an open-air speech might be easier than that.
More post
- 📝 Niddesa Translations
- 📝 How are expectations and responsibilities seen in Buddhism?
- 📝 meditation on the heartbeat
- 📝 Keeping a pet cat, without training or encouraging it to kill rats
- 📝 Why not kill animals to hasten their rebirth?
- 📝 Anapanasati (Forced Breathing)
- 📝 Relationship of Planck units and duration of a rebirth in Naraka
- 📝 Looking for a quote from Johannes Bronkhorst
- 📝 No more kamma and vipaka for Noble Ones?
- 📝 How to know who is a good monk?
- 📝 What do Buddhists believe in?
- 📝 Why sitting meditation, and is vippasana and breath meditation sufficient?
- 📝 problems with meditation in the morning
- 📝 What is a Sangha? Do you have to be a Buddhist to join a Sangha?
- 📝 Can a person choose to reincarnate as a human instead of a god?
- 📝 Where did Buddha state "Mother is the Buddha of the home?"
- 📝 Foundations of Mindfulness • Stages of Awakening
- 📝 questions on my meditation practice?
- 📝 Differently able people and their "Vinyana"
- 📝 Buddhist pursuit of peace questions
- 📝 What is the origin of the Five Enobling Virtues?
- 📝 How to not to attach to the vinaya?
- 📝 The alayavijnana and emptiness
- 📝 How and when should a child be introduced to Buddhism?
- 📝 How does Buddhist (supra-mundane) Happiness differ from ‘mundane’ happiness?
- 📝 What did the Buddha mean by "no truth can be spoken?"
- 📝 Is one intention better than the other?
- 📝 Guidance for how to handle stomach problems arising during Vipassana?
- 📝 Monks and politics
- 📝 Vajrasatva Practice as training in ultimate Bodhicitta?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 How was oration performed in ancient times?
- 📝 How was the Buddha Jayanti edition of the Tripitaka derived?
- 📝 How would I know if I was suffering from spiritual materialism?
- 📝 If someone was an Once-returner in last life how can he know that ?
- 📝 How was Chögyam Trungpa's behaviour justified by his lineage?
- 📝 how do we know about parts of Buddha's life where he was clearly alone?
- 📝 The Buddha is said to have rediscovered the ancient path. Why was it lost to begin with?
- 📝 How can the Buddha (after he was enlightened) reflect that he was not at ease and then became at ease in seclusion?
- 📝 How old was Buddhism/Shinto before Shinto began to adopt aspects of Buddhism
- 📝 How do I refute the claim that the Buddha was actually preaching Vedanta?
- 📝 How did ancient Indian Buddhists describe causation vs correlation? Why were they concerned with this?
- 📝 Different realms,Different beings,Different times - How do they understand what we are saying?
- 📝 How many times has someone taken birth into samsara?
- 📝 Where can we find (Lost) ancient Indian text by Buddhist scholars which was Translated in other languages?
- 📝 How was my performance in the Fifth precept
- 📝 Metta phrases about safety in ancient and modern times
- 📝 How to refute the claim that the Buddha was an "avatar" of Vishnu?
- 📝 How was it possible for some people to refute the Buddha face to face?
- 📝 How Lord Buddha did sermon for the people who was long distance
- 📝 If there is no soul, how can there be rebirth?
- 📝 How to explain what Buddhism is?
- 📝 How does stream entry occur?
- 📝 Lust - How Can it be Overcome?
- 📝 How not to kill the mouse in my house?
- 📝 How to determine the end of a meditation session without a clock?
- 📝 How do Buddhists express condolences?
- 📝 How can I assess the quality of a local Buddhist group?
- 📝 How should Buddhists handle prayer requests?
- 📝 How do you tell a 4-year-old who the Buddha was?
- 📝 How is sexual misconduct explained in regards to the five precepts?