Public Opinion and Politics in the Late Roman Republic

Informationen zum Autor Cristina Rosillo-López is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville. Her first book, La corruption à la fin de la République romaine: aspects politiques et financiers (2010), studied corruption during the Late Roman Republic, and received the Maestranza Order Research Award 2013. She has also written several articles and book chapters about politics, popular political culture, financial matters and rhetoric in the Late Roman Republic. Klappentext This book investigates the working mechanisms of public opinion in the politics of Late Republican Rome. Zusammenfassung This book investigates the working mechanisms of public opinion in the politics of Late Republican Rome. It explores the political interaction (and sometimes opposition) between the elite and the people through rumours! gossip! political literature! popular verses and graffiti! and also argues for a wider conception of political participation by the people. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Public opinion in Rome: definition, models and constraints; 2. Sociability and politics; 3. Rumours, gossips and conversations in Roman political life; 4. Political literature and public opinion (I): defining political literature; 5. Political literature and public opinion (II): genres of political literature; 6. Groups and agents of public opinion; 7. Rhetoric and public opinion: theory and practice; 8. Conclusions.

Product details

• Authors: Cristina Rosillo-Lopez, Cristina Rosillo-López
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2017
• EAN: 9781107145078
• ISBN: 978-1-107-14507-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; History of Ideas, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Italy, Ancient World, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, Public Opinion & Polls, Public opinion and polls