03705nam 2200781Ia 450 991082623690332120200520144314.01-280-44939-X0-511-18553-70-511-18470-00-511-18734-30-511-31349-70-511-48287-60-511-18641-X(CKB)1000000000353536(EBL)256669(OCoLC)560088765(SSID)ssj0000198573(PQKBManifestationID)11171663(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000198573(PQKBWorkID)10184158(PQKB)10369523(UkCbUP)CR9780511482878(MiAaPQ)EBC256669(Au-PeEL)EBL256669(CaPaEBR)ebr10124665(CaONFJC)MIL44939(OCoLC)69413233(EXLCZ)99100000000035353620030516d2004 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMass oratory and political power in the late Roman Republic /Robert Morstein-Marx1st ed.Cambridge ;New York Cambridge University Press20041 online resource (xiv, 313 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-06678-6 0-521-82327-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-305) and index.1. Introduction -- 2. Setting the stage -- 3. Civic knowledge -- 4. The Voice of the People -- 5. Debate -- 6. Contional ideology: the invisible "optimate" -- 7. Contional ideology: the political drama -- 8. Conclusion.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 debate between 'oligarchical' and 'democratic' interpretations of Republican politics, Robert Morstein-Marx emphasizes the perpetual negotiation and reproduction of political power through mass communication. The book analyses the ideology of Republican mass oratory and situates 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.Speeches, addresses, etc., LatinHistory and criticismCommunicationPolitical aspectsRomePower (Social sciences)RomePublic meetingsRomeRhetoric, AncientOratory, AncientRomePolitics and government265-30 B.CRomeHistoryRepublic, 265-30 B.CSpeeches, addresses, etc., LatinHistory and criticism.CommunicationPolitical aspectsPower (Social sciences)Public meetingsRhetoric, Ancient.Oratory, Ancient.875/.0109358Morstein-Marx Robert788915MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826236903321Mass oratory and political power in the late Roman Republic4124335UNINA