Political communication in the Roman world / edited by Cristina Rosillo-López.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rosillo López, Cristina, editor.

Series:

Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C.-A.D. 476) (Series) ; 27.

Impact of empire : Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C.-A.D. 476, 1572-0500 ; volume 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social conditions.

Rome--Politics and government--265-30 B.C--Congresses.

Rome.

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

Rome (Empire).

Politics and government.

Communication in politics--Rome--History--Congresses.

Communication in politics.

Communication--Political aspects--Rome--History--Congresses.

Communication.

Political culture--Rome--History--Congresses.

Political culture.

Political participation--Rome--History--Congresses.

Political participation.

Rome--Social conditions--Congresses.

Communication--Political aspects.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 284 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Summary:

"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. Contributors are: Henriette van der Blom, Juan Manuel Cortés Copete, Cyril Courrier, Antonio Duplá Ansuategui, Martin Jehne, Julio Cesar Magalhães de Oliveira, Rosario Moreno Soldevila, Francisco Pina Polo, Cristina Rosillo-López, Catherine Steel, Jeffrey Tatum"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Cristina Rosillo-Lopez

Part 1. Speech and mechanisms of political communication

Defining public speech in the Roman Republic : occasion, audience and purpose / Catherine Steel

Informal conversations between senators in the late Roman Republic / Cristina Rosillo-Lopez

Part 2. Political communication at a distance

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 Cortes-Copete

Part 3. Political communication, a bottom-up approach

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 Magalhaes de Oliveira

Part 4. Failure of political communication

Incitement to violence in late Republican political oratory / Antonio Dupla Ansuategui

Why the anti-Caesarians failed : political communication on the eve of civil war (51 to 49 BC) / Martin Jehne

Part 5. Representations of political communication

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.

Notes:

Papers from a conference held in Seville in 2015.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Political communication in the Roman world

ISBN:

9789004350830

9004350837

OCLC:

987282985