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ISBN10: 0199641897, ISBN13: 9780199641895, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. Community and Communication: Oratory and Politics in Republican Rome brings together nineteen international contributions which rethink the role of public speech in the Roman Republic. Speech was an integral part of decision-making in Republican Rome, and oratory was part of the education of every member of the elite. Yet no complete speech from the period by anyone other than Cicero survives, and as a result the debate on oratory, and political practicemore widely, is liable to be distorted by the distinctive features of Cicero's oratorical practice. With careful attention to a wide range of ancient evidence, this volume shines a light onorators other than Cicero, and considers the oratory of diplomatic exchanges and impromptu heckling and repartee alongside the more familiar genres of forensic and political speech. In doing so, it challenges the idea that Cicero was a normative figure, and highlights the variety of career choices and speech strategies open to Roman politicians. The essays in the volume also demonstrate how unpredictable the outcomes of oratory were: politicians could try to control events by cherry-pickingtheir audience and using tried methods of persuasion, but incompetence, bad luck, or hostile listeners were constant threats. The volume looks at the role of oratory in Roman public life and marks a shift in the debate away from Cicero ...
Hardback. New. The volume looks at the role of oratory in Roman public life and marks a shift in the debate away from Cicero and the analysis of his oratory towards the ways in which speech could be used by politicians and the factors, such as audience, speaker personality, and opposition, which were used with oratory to make speakers successful or unsuccessful. ISBN 0199641897 9780199641895 [GB]
ISBN10: 0199641897, ISBN13: 9780199641895, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. Community and Communication: Oratory and Politics in Republican Rome brings together nineteen international contributions which rethink the role of public speech in the Roman Republic. Speech was an integral part of decision-making in Republican Rome, and oratory was part of the education of every member of the elite. Yet no complete speech from the period by anyone other than Cicero survives, and as a result the debate on oratory, and political practicemore widely, is liable to be distorted by the distinctive features of Cicero's oratorical practice. With careful attention to a wide range of ancient evidence, this volume shines a light onorators other than Cicero, and considers the oratory of diplomatic exchanges and impromptu heckling and repartee alongside the more familiar genres of forensic and political speech. In doing so, it challenges the idea that Cicero was a normative figure, and highlights the variety of career choices and speech strategies open to Roman politicians. The essays in the volume also demonstrate how unpredictable the outcomes of oratory were: politicians could try to control events by cherry-pickingtheir audience and using tried methods of persuasion, but incompetence, bad luck, or hostile listeners were constant threats. The volume looks at the role of oratory in Roman public life and marks a shift in the debate away from Cicero ...
ISBN10: 0199641897, ISBN13: 9780199641895, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover [DH, SE, Spain] [Publication Year: 2013]
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