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Community and Communication: Oratory and Politics in the Republican Rome - Couverture rigide

 
9780199641895: Community and Communication: Oratory and Politics in the Republican Rome
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0199641897 ISBN 13 : 9780199641895
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Community and Communication: Oratory and Politics in Republican Rome brings together nineteen international contributions which rethink the role of public speech in the Roman Republic. Speech was an integral part of decision-making in Republican Rome, and oratory was part of the education of every member of the elite. Yet no complete speech from the period by anyone other than Cicero survives, and as a result the debate on oratory, and political practice more widely, is liable to be distorted by the distinctive features of Cicero's oratorical practice.

With careful attention to a wide range of ancient evidence, this volume shines a light on orators other than Cicero, and considers the oratory of diplomatic exchanges and impromptu heckling and repartee alongside the more familiar genres of forensic and political speech. In doing so, it challenges the idea that Cicero was a normative figure, and highlights the variety of career choices and speech strategies open to Roman politicians. The essays in the volume also demonstrate how unpredictable the outcomes of oratory were: politicians could try to control events by cherry-picking their audience and using tried methods of persuasion, but incompetence, bad luck, or hostile listeners were constant threats.

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À propos de l'auteur

Catherine Steel is Professor of Classics at the University of Glasgow, and is author of numerous books and articles on Cicero, Roman oratory, and Roman political history.


Henriette van der Blom is Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford University and has previously published Cicero's Role Models (Oxford University Press, 2010) as well as articles on Cicero and Roman political life.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0199641897
ISBN 13 
9780199641895
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
414
Éditeur
Steel Catherine, Van Der Blom Henriette
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