""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: Citizens, Speech, and the Roman Res Publica""; ""1. Friends, Romans, Countrymen: Addressing the Roman People and the Rhetoric of Inclusion""; ""2. �Cultural Hegemony� and the Communicative Power of the Roman Elite""; ""3. Feeding the Plebs with Words: The Signi.cance of Senatorial Public Oratory in the Small World of Roman Politics""; ""4. From Meeting to Text: The Contio in the Late Republic""; ""Part II: Strategy and Tactics in Public Speech""
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""12. Cicero and the Politics of Ambiguity: Interpreting the Pro Marcello""""Part IV: Romans and Non-Romans""; ""13. The Roman Ambassador�s Speech: Public Oratory on the Diplomatic Stage""; ""14. Foreign Eloquence in the Roman Senate""; ""15. Provincials, patrons, and the rhetoric of repetundae""; ""Part V: Cicero�s Rivals""; ""16. The Common (Mediocris) Orator of the Late Republic: The Scribonii Curiones""; ""17. Fragmentary Speeches: The Oratory and Political Career of Piso Caesoninus""; ""18. Marcus Junius Brutus the Orator: Between Philosophy and Rhetoric""
""5. Beyond the Contio: Political Communication in the Tribunate of Tiberius Gracchus""""6. Speech, Competition, and Collaboration: Tribunician Politics and the Development of Popular Ideology""; ""7. Publius Clodius and the Boundaries of the Contio""; ""8. Campaign Rhetoric""; ""9. Pompeius, Helvius Mancia, and the Politics of Public Debate""; ""Part III: Judgements and Criticisms""; ""10. The Bad Orator: Between Clumsy Delivery and Political Danger""; ""11. The Orator and His Audience: The Rhetorical Perspective in the Art of Deliberation""
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This title brings together contributions which rethink the role of public speech in the Roman Republic. With careful attention to a range of evidence, it shines a light on orators and considers the oratory of diplomatic exchanges and impromptu heckling and repartee alongside the familiar genres of forensic and political speech
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Title
Community and communication.
International Standard Book Number
9780199641895
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Oratory, Ancient
Rhetoric, Ancient
Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin-- History and criticism