Political communication in the Roman world
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Political communication in the Roman world
(Impact of empire, v. 27)
Brill, c2017
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Note
Papers from a conference held in Seville in 2015
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume aims to address the question of political communication in the Roman world. It draws upon social sciences and the current trend for the historical study of political communication.
The book tackles three main problems: What constitutes political communication in the Roman world? In what ways could information be transmitted and represented? What mechanisms made political communication successful or unsuccessful?
This edited volume covers questions like speech and mechanisms of political communication, political communication at a distance, bottom-up communication, failure of communication and representation of political communication.
It will be of help to specialists in the Roman world, but also to students and researchers of political sciences, and specialists of political communication in pre-industrial times.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction
Cristina Rosillo-Lopez
Part 1: Speech and Mechanisms of Political Communication
1 Defining Public Speech in the Roman Republic: Occasion, Audience and Purpose
Catherine Steel
2 Informal Conversations between Senators in the Late Roman Republic
Cristina Rosillo-Lopez
Part 2: Political Communication at a Distance
3 Intermediaries in Political Communication: Adlegatio and its Uses
W. Jeffrey Tatum
4 Circulation of Information in Cicero's Correspondence of the Years 59-58 BC
Francisco Pina Polo
5 Governing by Dispatching Letters: The Hadrianic Chancellery
Juan Manuel Cortes-Copete
Part 3: Political Communication, a Bottom-up Approach
6 The Roman Plebs and Rumour: Social Interactions and Political Communication in the Early Principate
Cyril Courrier
7 The Emperor is Dead! Rumours, Protests, and Political Opportunities in Late Antiquity
Julio Cesar Magalhaes de Oliveira
Part 4: Failure of Political Communication
8 Incitement to Violence in Late Republican Political Oratory
Antonio Dupla Ansuategui
9 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
10 The Reception of Republican Political Communication: Tacitus' Choice of Exemplary Republican Orators in Context
Henriette van der Blom
11 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
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"