Reading Republican Oratory
Reconstructions, Contexts, Receptions
Published on 22. February 2018
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384 pages
978-0-19-878820-1 (ISBN)
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Public speech was a key aspect of politics in Republican Rome, both in theory and in practice, and recent decades have seen a surge in scholarly discussion of its significance and performance. Yet the partial nature of the surviving evidence means that our understanding of its workings is dominated by one man, whose texts are the only examples to have survived in complete form since antiquity: Cicero.
This collection of essays aims to broaden our conception of the oratory of the Roman Republic by exploring how it was practiced by individuals other than Cicero, whether major statesmen, jobbing lawyers, or, exceptionally, the wives of politicians. It focuses particularly on the surviving fragments of such oratory, with individual essays tackling the challenges posed both by the partial and often unreliable nature of the evidence about these other Roman orators-often known to us chiefly through the tendentious observations of Cicero himself-and the complex intersections of the written fragments and the oral phenomenon. Collectively, the essays are concerned with the methods by which we are able to reconstruct non-Ciceronian oratory and the exploration of new ways of interpreting this evidence to tell us about the content, context, and delivery of those speeches. They are arranged into two thematic Parts, the first addressing questions of reception, selection, and transmission, and the second those of reconstruction, contextualization, and interpretation: together they represent a comprehensive overview of the non-Ciceronian speeches that will be of use to all ancient historians, philologists, and literary classicists with an interest in the oratory of the Roman Republic.
This collection of essays aims to broaden our conception of the oratory of the Roman Republic by exploring how it was practiced by individuals other than Cicero, whether major statesmen, jobbing lawyers, or, exceptionally, the wives of politicians. It focuses particularly on the surviving fragments of such oratory, with individual essays tackling the challenges posed both by the partial and often unreliable nature of the evidence about these other Roman orators-often known to us chiefly through the tendentious observations of Cicero himself-and the complex intersections of the written fragments and the oral phenomenon. Collectively, the essays are concerned with the methods by which we are able to reconstruct non-Ciceronian oratory and the exploration of new ways of interpreting this evidence to tell us about the content, context, and delivery of those speeches. They are arranged into two thematic Parts, the first addressing questions of reception, selection, and transmission, and the second those of reconstruction, contextualization, and interpretation: together they represent a comprehensive overview of the non-Ciceronian speeches that will be of use to all ancient historians, philologists, and literary classicists with an interest in the oratory of the Roman Republic.
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English
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Oxford
United Kingdom
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College/higher education
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Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
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740 gr
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978-0-19-878820-1 (9780198788201)
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Christa Gray | Andrea Balbo | Richard M. A. Marshall
Reading Republican Oratory
Reconstructions, Contexts, Receptions
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Christa Gray | Andrea Balbo | Richard M. A. Marshall
Reading Republican Oratory
Reconstructions, Contexts, Receptions
E-Book
02/2018
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€83.99
Available for download
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Christa Gray has been a Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading since January 2016 and was previously a Research Associate on the ERC-funded project 'Fragments of the Republican Roman Orators' at the University of Glasgow. She will be on research leave at the Humboldt University in Berlin until 2018 as a postdoctoral fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, working on an edition of Jerome's Vita Hilarionis.
Andrea Balbo is a Lecturer at the University of Turin and also teaches Latin language and literature at the University of Italian Switzerland in Lugano. His research interests include Roman oratory and rhetoric, declamation, late antique Latin literature, digital humanities, and the reception of Classics in modern literatures. He is currently preparing, with Catherine Schneider, a critical edition of Calpurnius, and an edition for Teubner of the fragmentary oratory of the Imperial period.
Richard Marshall is a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow and Research Associate on the ERC-funded project 'Fragments of the Republican Roman Orators'. His research interests include the Republican polymath Varro, the history of the book, and the transmission of classical literature. He is currently preparing a monograph on the reception of Varro in Late Antiquity.
Catherine Steel is Professor of Classics at the University of Glasgow, where she is Principal Investigator on the ERC-funded project 'Fragments of the Republican Roman Orators'. Her research centres on the Roman Republic, with a particular focus on political history and oratory. Among her recent publications are The End of the Roman Republic, 146-44 BC: Conquest and Crisis (Edinburgh UP, 2013) and, as editor, The Cambridge Companion to Cicero (Cambridge UP, 2013).
Andrea Balbo is a Lecturer at the University of Turin and also teaches Latin language and literature at the University of Italian Switzerland in Lugano. His research interests include Roman oratory and rhetoric, declamation, late antique Latin literature, digital humanities, and the reception of Classics in modern literatures. He is currently preparing, with Catherine Schneider, a critical edition of Calpurnius, and an edition for Teubner of the fragmentary oratory of the Imperial period.
Richard Marshall is a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow and Research Associate on the ERC-funded project 'Fragments of the Republican Roman Orators'. His research interests include the Republican polymath Varro, the history of the book, and the transmission of classical literature. He is currently preparing a monograph on the reception of Varro in Late Antiquity.
Catherine Steel is Professor of Classics at the University of Glasgow, where she is Principal Investigator on the ERC-funded project 'Fragments of the Republican Roman Orators'. Her research centres on the Roman Republic, with a particular focus on political history and oratory. Among her recent publications are The End of the Roman Republic, 146-44 BC: Conquest and Crisis (Edinburgh UP, 2013) and, as editor, The Cambridge Companion to Cicero (Cambridge UP, 2013).
Editor
Lecturer in ClassicsLecturer in Classics, University of Reading
LecturerLecturer, University of Turin
Lecturer and Research Associate on the 'Fragments of the Republican Roman Orators' projectLecturer and Research Associate on the 'Fragments of the Republican Roman Orators' project, University of Glasgow
Professor of ClassicsProfessor of Classics, University of Glasgow
Content
Frontmatter
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
0: Introduction
A: TRANSMISSION
i. Republican Rome
1: Alexandra Eckert: Roman Orators between Greece and Rome: The Case of Cato the Elder, L. Crassus, and M. Antonius
2: Ian Goh: Republican Satire in the Dock: Forensic Rhetoric in Lucilius
3: Elena Torregaray Pagola: Plautus and the Tone of Roman Diplomacy of Intervention
4: Alfredo Casamento: The Eloquence of Publius Sulpicius Rufus and Gaius Aurelius Cotta in Cicero's Brutus
ii. Imperial Rome
5: Amedeo Raschieri: The Fragments of Republican Orators in Quintilian's Institutio oratoria
6: S. J. Lawrence: Vis and Seruitus: The Dark Side of Republican Oratory in Valerius Maximus
7: Christopher Burden-Strevens: Reconstructing Republican Oratory in Cassius Dio's Roman History
8: John Dugan: Netting the Wolf-Fish: Gaius Titius in Macrobius and Cicero
B: RECONSTRUCTION OF THE FRAGMENTS AND THEIR SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXTS
i. Reconstructions in the Literal Sense
9: Alberto Cavarzere: Gaius Titius, Orator and Poeta. (Cic. Brut. 167 and Macrob. Sat. 3.16.4-16)
10: Anthony Corbeill: Clodius' Contio de haruspicum responsis
11: Kit Morrell: Certain gentlemen say . . .': Cicero, Cato, and the Debate on the Validity of Clodius' Laws
ii. Oratorical Performance
12: Jennifer Hilder: The Politics of Pronuntiatio: The Rhetorica ad Herennium and Delivery in the Early First Century BC
13: Andrea Balbo: Traces of Actio in Fragmentary Roman Orators
14: Cristina Rosillo-Lopez: I Said, He Said: Fragments of Informal Conversations and the Grey Zones of Public Speech in the Late Roman Republic
iii. Gender in Fragmentary Oratory
15: Hans Beck: Of Fragments and Feelings: Roman Funeral Oratory Revisited
16: Cristina Pepe: Fragments of Epideictic Oratory: The Exemplary Case of the Laudatio Funebris for Women
17: Bill Gladhill: Women from the Rostra: Fulvia and the Pro Milone
18: Judith P. Hallett: Oratorum Romanarum Fragmenta Liberae Rei Publicae: The Letter of Cornelia, Mater Gracchorum, and the Speeches of her Father and Son
Endmatter
Bibliography
Index
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
0: Introduction
A: TRANSMISSION
i. Republican Rome
1: Alexandra Eckert: Roman Orators between Greece and Rome: The Case of Cato the Elder, L. Crassus, and M. Antonius
2: Ian Goh: Republican Satire in the Dock: Forensic Rhetoric in Lucilius
3: Elena Torregaray Pagola: Plautus and the Tone of Roman Diplomacy of Intervention
4: Alfredo Casamento: The Eloquence of Publius Sulpicius Rufus and Gaius Aurelius Cotta in Cicero's Brutus
ii. Imperial Rome
5: Amedeo Raschieri: The Fragments of Republican Orators in Quintilian's Institutio oratoria
6: S. J. Lawrence: Vis and Seruitus: The Dark Side of Republican Oratory in Valerius Maximus
7: Christopher Burden-Strevens: Reconstructing Republican Oratory in Cassius Dio's Roman History
8: John Dugan: Netting the Wolf-Fish: Gaius Titius in Macrobius and Cicero
B: RECONSTRUCTION OF THE FRAGMENTS AND THEIR SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXTS
i. Reconstructions in the Literal Sense
9: Alberto Cavarzere: Gaius Titius, Orator and Poeta. (Cic. Brut. 167 and Macrob. Sat. 3.16.4-16)
10: Anthony Corbeill: Clodius' Contio de haruspicum responsis
11: Kit Morrell: Certain gentlemen say . . .': Cicero, Cato, and the Debate on the Validity of Clodius' Laws
ii. Oratorical Performance
12: Jennifer Hilder: The Politics of Pronuntiatio: The Rhetorica ad Herennium and Delivery in the Early First Century BC
13: Andrea Balbo: Traces of Actio in Fragmentary Roman Orators
14: Cristina Rosillo-Lopez: I Said, He Said: Fragments of Informal Conversations and the Grey Zones of Public Speech in the Late Roman Republic
iii. Gender in Fragmentary Oratory
15: Hans Beck: Of Fragments and Feelings: Roman Funeral Oratory Revisited
16: Cristina Pepe: Fragments of Epideictic Oratory: The Exemplary Case of the Laudatio Funebris for Women
17: Bill Gladhill: Women from the Rostra: Fulvia and the Pro Milone
18: Judith P. Hallett: Oratorum Romanarum Fragmenta Liberae Rei Publicae: The Letter of Cornelia, Mater Gracchorum, and the Speeches of her Father and Son
Endmatter
Bibliography
Index