Mass Oratory and Political Power in the Late Roman Republic

By Robert Morstein-Marx

Book Overview

Examining how public political discourse influenced the distribution of power between the Senate and people in the Late Roman Republic (133-42 BC), this work analyzes comprehensively the ideology of Republican mass oratory. Robert Morstein-Marx analyzes it within the institutional, historical and physical contexts of the public meetings in which these speeches were heard. Morstein-Marx emphasizes the perpetual negotiation and reproduction of power through communication.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521823277
• ISBN13: 9780521823272
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"