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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817754803321

Titolo

Political communication in the roman world / / edited by Cristina Rosillo-Lopez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, [Netherlands] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

90-04-35084-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Impact of Empire, , 1572-0500 ; ; Volume 27

Disciplina

320.937014

Soggetti

Communication in politics - Rome - History

Communication - Political aspects - Rome - History

Political culture - Rome - History

Political participation - Rome - History

Rome Politics and government 265-30 B.C Congresses

Rome Politics and government 30 B.C.-476 A.D Congresses

Rome Social conditions Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes indexes.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Cristina Rosillo-López -- Defining Public Speech in the Roman Republic: Occasion, Audience and Purpose / Catherine Steel -- Informal Conversations between Senators in the Late Roman Republic / Cristina Rosillo-López -- 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 Cortés-Copete -- 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 Magalhães de Oliveira -- Incitement to Violence in Late Republican Political Oratory / Antonio Duplá Ansuategui -- Why the Anti-Caesarians Failed: Political Communication on the Eve of Civil War (51 to 49 bc) / Martin Jehne -- 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 -- Name Index -- Subject Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.