Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Morstein-Marx, Robert, author.

Title Mass oratory and political power in the late Roman Republic / Robert Morstein-Marx
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004
©2004

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xiv, 313 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures and maps; Acknowledgments; Note on translations; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Setting the stage; Chapter 3: Civic knowledge; Chapter 4: The Voice of the People; Chapter 5: Debate; Chapter 6: Contional ideology: the invisible "optimate"; Chapter 7: Contional ideology: the political drama; Chapter 8: Conclusion; References; Index
Summary This book examines how public, political discourse shaped the distribution of power between Senate and People in the Late Roman Republic. The 'ideology' of Republican mass oratory is analyzed comprehensively and situated fully within the institutional, historical and physical contexts of the public meetings in which these speeches were heard
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-305) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
English
Print version record
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
Subject Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin -- History and criticism
Communication -- Political aspects -- Rome
Power (Social sciences) -- Rome
Public meetings -- Rome
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Oratory, Ancient.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Latin.
Communication -- Political aspects
Oratory, Ancient
Politics and government
Power (Social sciences)
Public meetings
Rhetoric, Ancient
Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin
Retorica.
Massacommunicatie.
Politieke invloed.
Romeinse republiek.
SUBJECT Rome -- Politics and government -- 265-30 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115180
Rome -- History -- Republic, 265-30 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115116
Subject Rome (Empire)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2003053220
ISBN 0511184700
9780511184703
051118641X
9780511186417
9780511187346
0511187343
9780521823272
0521823277
0511185537
9780511185533
9780511482878
0511482876
128044939X
9781280449390
9786610449392
6610449392
0511313497
9780511313493
0521066786
9780521066785