Political communication in the Roman world

Weitere Verfasser: Rosillo López, Cristina.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017.
Umfang/Format: vi, 284 p. ; 25 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, 27 B.C.-A.D. 406) (Series) ; 27
Schlagworte:
iDAI.gazetteer: Imperium Romanum
Inhalte/Bestandteile: 11 Datensätze
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction / Cristina Rosillo-Lopez
  • Part 1. Speech and mechanisms of political communication
  • Defining public speech in the Roman Republic : occasion, audience and purpose / Catherine Steel
  • Informal conversations between senators in the late Roman Republic / Cristina Rosillo-Lopez
  • Part 2. Political communication at a distance
  • Intermediaries in political communication : Adlegatio and its uses / W. Jeffrey Tatum
  • Circulation of information in Cicero's correspondence of the years 59-58 BC / Francisco Pina Polo
  • Governing by dispatching letters : the Hadrianic Chancellery / Juan Manuel Cortes-Copete
  • Part 3. Political communication, a bottom-up approach
  • The Roman plebs and rumour : social interactions and political communication in the early Principate / Cyril Courrier
  • The emperor is dead! : rumours, protests, and political opportunities in late antiquity / Julio Cesar Magalhaes de Oliveira
  • Part 4. Failure of political communication
  • Incitement to violence in late Republican political oratory / Antonio Dupla Ansuategui
  • Why the anti-Caesarians failed : political communication on the eve of civil war (51 to 49 BC) / Martin Jehne
  • Part 5. Representations of political communication
  • The reception of Republican political communication : tacitus' choice of exemplary Republican orators in context / Henriette van der Blom
  • Retouching a self-portrait (or How to adapt one's image in times of political change) : the case of martial in the light of Pliny the Younger / Rosario Moreno Soldevila.