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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext The volume looks at the role of oratory in Roman public life and marks a shift in the debate away from Cicero and the analysis of his oratory towards the ways in which speech could be used by politicians and the factors, such as audience, speaker personality, and opposition, which were used with oratory to make speakers successful or unsuccessful. Zusammenfassung The volume looks at the role of oratory in Roman public life and marks a shift in the debate away from Cicero and the analysis of his oratory towards the ways in which speech could be used by politicians and the factors, such as audience, speaker personality, and opposition, which were used with oratory to make speakers successful or unsuccessful. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgemnets List of contributors List of abbreviations Introduction Part I: Citizens, Speech and the Roman res publica 1: Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp: Friends, Romans, Countrymen: addressing the Roman people and the rhetoric of inclusion 2: Robert Morstein-Marx: Cultural hegemony and the communicative power of the Roman elite 3: Martin Jehne: Feeding the plebs with words: the significance of senatorial public oratory in the small word of Roman politics 4: Henrik Mouritsen: From meeting to text: the contio in the late Republic Part II: Strategy and Tactics in Public Speech 5: Harriet I. Flower: Beyond the contio: political communication in the tribunate of Tiberius Gracchus 6: Amy Russell: Speech, competition, and collaboration: tribunician politics and the development of popular ideology 7: James Tan: Publius Clodius and the boundaries of the contio 8: W. Jeffrey Tatum: Campaign rhetoric 9: Catherine Steel: Pompeius, Helvius Mancia and the politics of popular debate Part III: Judgments and Criticisms 10: Jakob Wisse: The bad orator: between clumsy delivery and political danger 11: Valentina Arena: The orator and his audience: the rhetorical perspective 12: John Dugan: Cicero and the politics of ambiguity Part IV: Romans and non-Romans 13: Elena Torregaray Pagola: The Roman ambassador s speech: public oratory on the diplomatic stage 14: Francisco Pina Polo: Foreign eloquence in the Roman senate 15: Jonathan R.W. Prag: The provincial perspective on the politics of repetundae trials Part V: Cicero s Rivals 16: Cristina Rosillo López: The common (mediocris) orator: the Scribonii Curiones 17: Henriette van der Blom: Fragmentary Speeches: the oratory and political career of Piso Caesoninus 18: Andrea Balbo: Marcus Junius Brutus the orator: between philosophy and rhetoric 19: Trevor Mahy: Antonius, triumvir and orator: career, style and effectiveness Bibliography Indices ...
