OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS COMMUNITY AND COMMUNICATION 2013 RETAIL EBOOK-kE

TITLE: COMMUNITY AND COMMUNICATION: ORATORY AND POLITICS IN
THE ROMAN REPUBLIC
PUBLISHER: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PR LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
LINK: http://is.gd/KwRXiH RELEASE TYPE: RETAIL
FORMAT: PDF RELEASE DATE: 2015.01.25
ISBN: 9780199641895 STORE DATE: 2013
SAVED.MONEY: 90 POUND DISKCOUNT: 01 x 05MB
AUTHOR: CATHERINE STEEL AND HENRIETTE VAN DER BLOM

BOOK

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 practice more 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 on orators 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-picking their audience and using tried methods of
persuasion, but incompetence, bad luck, or hostile listeners were
constant threats