Description: 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 current debate between 'oligarchical' and 'democratic' interpretations of Republican politics, Robert Morstein-Marx emphasizes the perpetual negotiation and reproduction of political power through mass communication. It is the first work to analyze the ideology of Republican mass oratory and to situate 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.
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EAN: 9780521823272
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Book Title: Mass Oratory and Political Power in the Late Roman
Number of Pages: 328 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Mass Oratory and Political Power in the Late Roman Republic
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Year: 2004
Item Height: 0.9 in
Subject: Ancient / General, Political Process / General, Speeches, Communication Studies, Ancient / Rome, Rhetoric, Ancient & Classical, Sociology / Social Theory
Item Weight: 20.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Robert Morstein-Marx
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Political Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science, Literary Collections, History
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
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