Community and Communication Oratory and Politics in the Roman Republic
ISBN: 9780199641895 | 0199641897
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 1/6/2013
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Community and Communication: Oratory and Politics in Republican Romebrings 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 pr... MORE
Acknowledgemnets
List of contributors
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Henriette van der Blom and Catherine Steel
Part I: Citizens, Speech and the Roman res publica
1. Friends, Romans, Countrymen: addressing the Roman people and the rhetoric of inclusion, Karl-Joachim Holkeskamp
2. Cultural hegemony and the communicative power of the Roman elite, Robert Morstein-Marx
3. Feeding the plebs with words:... MORE
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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