Klepsydra Court Pour
Klepsydra Court Pour
An interactive Athenian water-clock speech and mock-trial studio for debate coaches, classics and rhetoric students, mock-trial teams, Model UN chairs, and courtroom-history teachers who must allot prosecution and defense time the way classical Athens did—by klepsydra water measures, stop-the-clock document readings, and structured partes orationis—then rehearse against a living animated vessel instead of a plain digital timer. The core loop is pick or build a case allotment (amphora/choes → modern minutes), lock speech sections with water budgets, run a visual pour-down rehearsal with haptic section cues, and save reusable court-day templates. Rich seed content covers homicide, dokimasia, public-suit, and classroom debate models so every screen ships full—not empty—on first launch.
About Klepsydra Court Pour
An interactive Athenian water-clock speech and mock-trial studio for debate coaches, classics and rhetoric students, mock-trial teams, Model UN chairs, and courtroom-history teachers who must allot prosecution and defense time the way classical Athens did—by klepsydra water measures, stop-the-clock document readings, and structured partes orationis—then rehearse against a living animated vessel instead of a plain digital timer. The core loop is pick or build a case allotment (amphora/choes → modern minutes), lock speech sections with water budgets, run a visual pour-down rehearsal with haptic section cues, and save reusable court-day templates. Rich seed content covers homicide, dokimasia, public-suit, and classroom debate models so every screen ships full—not empty—on first launch.
Highlights
Case Allotment Builder — choose court type (priv…
Case Allotment Builder — choose court type (private suit, public suit, homicide, classroom debate) and lock prosecution vs defense water shares using Attic measures (choes, amphora fractions) with live conversion to minutes and seconds; mark ‘water-stop’ intervals when statutes or witness texts are read aloud so the vessel freezes exactly as in Athenian practice.
Living Klepsydra Stage — full-screen bronze-and-…
Living Klepsydra Stage — full-screen bronze-and-terracotta vessel with layered water gradient, ripple overlay, meander rim, and descending meniscus tied 1:1 to remaining speech time; dual chambers show both sides’ remaining water when running paired trials; tap to pause/resume pour; strong haptics on section boundaries (no push notifications).
Partes Orationis Sculptor — break a speech into …
Partes Orationis Sculptor — break a speech into exordium, narratio, divisio, confirmatio, confutatio, and peroratio (or simplified classroom beats), drag to reorder, and assign each block a water budget with color-coded bronze/oxblood chips; total must equal the side’s allotment or the vessel rim glows warning crimson.
Seeded Court-Day Library — browse ready template…
Seeded Court-Day Library — browse ready templates (e.g., Lysias-style homicide defense, dokimasia scrutiny, assembly-time equal rebuttal, 6-minute classroom LD round mapped to choes) each with suggested section splits, sample outline prompts, and historical notes; duplicate any template into an editable personal case.
Attic Measure & Procedure Reference — illustrate…
Attic Measure & Procedure Reference — illustrated converter for choes ↔ minutes, explainer cards on how the physical klepsydra worked, who stopped the water and when, dikastic day structure, and fair-share norms; deep-link any unit chip back into the allotment builder.
Rehearsal Run Composer — name a session, pick si…
Rehearsal Run Composer — name a session, pick side (prosecution/defense/single speaker), attach a structure plan, optionally enable ambient pour SFX via AVFoundation, then run; after finish see a section-vs-budget bar chart (Charts) showing over/under-pour per beat for immediate coaching feedback.
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Support
Questions or feedback? Visit Support or email piontekjura@gmail.com.