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Mass oratory and political power in the late Roman Republic /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Mass oratory and political power in the late Roman Republic // Robert Morstein-Marx.
其他題名:	Mass Oratory & Political Power in the Late Roman Republic
作者:	Morstein-Marx, Robert,
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (xiv, 313 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
附註:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
標題:	Oratory, Ancient. -
標題:	Rome - Civilization -
電子資源:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511482878
ISBN:	9780511482878 (ebook)

Mass oratory and political power in the late Roman Republic /
Morstein-Marx, Robert,

Mass oratory and political power in the late Roman Republic /Mass Oratory & Political Power in the Late Roman RepublicRobert Morstein-Marx. - 1 online resource (xiv, 313 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

1. Introduction -- 2. Setting the stage -- 3. Civic knowledge -- 4. The Voice of the People -- 5. Debate -- 6. Contional ideology: the invisible "optimate" -- 7. Contional ideology: the political drama -- 8. Conclusion.

This book highlights the role played by public, political discourse in shaping the distribution of power between Senate and People in the Late Roman Republic. Against the background of the debate between 'oligarchical' and 'democratic' interpretations of Republican politics, Robert Morstein-Marx emphasizes the perpetual negotiation and reproduction of political power through mass communication. The book analyses the ideology of Republican mass oratory and situates its rhetoric fully within the institutional and historical context of the public meetings (contiones) in which these speeches were heard. Examples of contional orations, drawn chiefly from Cicero and Sallust, are subjected to an analysis that is influenced by contemporary political theory and empirical studies of public opinion and the media, rooted in a detailed examination of key events and institutional structures, and illuminated by a vivid sense of the urban space in which the contio was set.

ISBN: 9780511482878 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

560646
Oratory, Ancient.
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

555298
Rome
--Civilization

LC Class. No.: PA6083 / .M67 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 875/.0109358

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