ELi5: How did public address work before amplification? Like, Caesar addressing his troops on the field
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Mass public speaking was less of a common thing unless it was in a specifically designed theatre where the acoustics of the building would enhance the sound and the event was planned well ahead of time. Generals really didn’t address the common soldier that often. They may address their officers but any speach given to a massive army was likely a bit of fiction or historical revisionism done by people of the age to give the subject a more noble air. If any address was to be given it would be written down and spread by messengers to be read aloud to the masses whom likely couldn’t read at the time. This job would later be known as the “crier”.
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