Community and Communication
Oratory and Politics in Republican Rome
1st Edition
Published on 20. November 2012
414 pages
978-0-19-163656-1 (ISBN)
Description
The volume looks at the role of oratory in Roman public life and marks a shift in the debate away from Cicero and the analysis of his oratory towards the ways in which speech could be used by politicians and the factors, such as audience, speaker personality, and opposition, which were used with oratory to make speakers successful or unsuccessful.
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Catherine Steel | Henriette van der Blom
Community and Communication
Oratory and Politics in Republican Rome
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I: Citizens, Speech, and the Roman Res Publica
- 1. Friends, Romans, Countrymen: Addressing the Roman People and the Rhetoric of Inclusion
- 2. 'Cultural Hegemony' and the Communicative Power of the Roman Elite
- 3. Feeding the Plebs with Words: The Signi.cance of Senatorial Public Oratory in the Small World of Roman Politics
- 4. From Meeting to Text: The Contio in the Late Republic
- Part II: Strategy and Tactics in Public Speech
- 5. Beyond the Contio: Political Communication in the Tribunate of Tiberius Gracchus
- 6. Speech, Competition, and Collaboration: Tribunician Politics and the Development of Popular Ideology
- 7. Publius Clodius and the Boundaries of the Contio
- 8. Campaign Rhetoric
- 9. Pompeius, Helvius Mancia, and the Politics of Public Debate
- Part III: Judgements and Criticisms
- 10. The Bad Orator: Between Clumsy Delivery and Political Danger
- 11. The Orator and His Audience: The Rhetorical Perspective in the Art of Deliberation
- 12. Cicero and the Politics of Ambiguity: Interpreting the Pro Marcello
- Part IV: Romans and Non-Romans
- 13. The Roman Ambassador's Speech: Public Oratory on the Diplomatic Stage
- 14. Foreign Eloquence in the Roman Senate
- 15. Provincials, patrons, and the rhetoric of repetundae
- Part V: Cicero's Rivals
- 16. The Common (Mediocris) Orator of the Late Republic: The Scribonii Curiones
- 17. Fragmentary Speeches: The Oratory and Political Career of Piso Caesoninus
- 18. Marcus Junius Brutus the Orator: Between Philosophy and Rhetoric
- 19. Antonius, Triumvir and Orator: Career, Style, and Effectiveness
- Bibliography
- Index
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