TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rosillo-López,Cristina
TI  - Political Communication in the Roman World
T2  - Impact of Empire Series
SN  - 9789004350847
AV  - DG211 .P655 2017 
U1  - 320.937014 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Communication in politics-Rome-History-Congresses
KW  - Communication-Political aspects-Rome-History-Congresses
KW  - Political culture-Rome-History-Congresses
KW  - Political participation-Rome-History-Congresses
KW  - Rome-Politics and government-265-30 B.C.-Congresses
KW  - Rome-Politics and government-30 B.C.-476 A.D.-Congresses
KW  - Rome-Social conditions-Congresses
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 Speech and Mechanisms of Political Communication -- Chapter 1 Defining Public Speech in the Roman Republic: Occasion, Audience and Purpose -- Chapter 2 Informal Conversations between Senators in the Late Roman Republic -- Part 2 Political Communication at a Distance -- Chapter 3 Intermediaries in Political Communication: Adlegatio and its Uses -- Chapter 4 Circulation of Information in Cicero's Correspondence of the Years 59-58 BC -- Chapter 5 Governing by Dispatching Letters: The Hadrianic Chancellery -- Part 3 Political Communication, a Bottom-up Approach -- Chapter 6 The Roman Plebs and Rumour: Social Interactions and Political Communication in the Early Principate -- Chapter 7 The Emperor is Dead! Rumours, Protests, and Political Opportunities in Late Antiquity -- Part 4 Failure of Political Communication -- Chapter 8 Incitement to Violence in Late Republican Political Oratory -- Chapter 9 Why the Anti-Caesarians Failed: Political Communication on the Eve of Civil War (51 to 49 BC) -- Part 5 Representations of Political Communication -- Chapter 10 The Reception of Republican Political Communication: Tacitus' Choice of Exemplary Republican Orators in Context -- Chapter 11 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 -- Name Index -- Subject Index
N2  - This volume aims to address the question of political communication in the Roman world. 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?
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