Communicating Public Opinion in the Roman Republic
- Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource (306 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Intro; TABLE OF CONTENTS; (Cristina Rosillo-López) Introduction; PUBLIC OPINION: NATURE AND CHARACTER; (Frédéric Hurlet) L'öffentliche Meinung de Habermas et l'opinion publique dans la Rome antique. De la raison à l'auctoritas; (Amy Russell) The populus Romanus as the source of public opinion; (Cristina Rosillo-López) How did Romans perceive and measure public opinion?; PUBLIC OPINION: MILITARY AND INSTITUTIONAL QUESTIONS; (Enrique García Riaza) Laureatae litterae. Announcing Victories and Public Opinion in the Middle Republic (Alejandro Díaz Fernández) Military disasters, public opinion, and Roman politics during the wars in Hispania (153-133 B.C.)(Wolfgang Blösel) The imperia extraordinaria of the 70s to 50s B.C. and Public Opinion; (Kit Morrell) "Who wants to go to Alexandria?" Pompey, Ptolemy, and public opinion, 57-56 BC; (Clifford Ando) The space and time of politics in civil war; PUBLIC OPINION AS PUBLIC DIALOGUE; (Francisco Pina Polo) Rhetoric of Fear in Republican Rome: the Ciceronian Case; (T.W. Hillard) Ventus Popularis? 'Popular Opinion' in the 70s and its senatorial Reception (Kathryn Welch) Selling Proscription to the Roman PublicTHE TRANSMISSION OF PUBLIC OPINION; (W. Jeffrey Tatum) Canvassing the elite: communicating sound values in the Commentariolum Petitionis; (Alexander Yakobson) Velleius Paterculus, imperial ideology and the old republic; APPENDIX; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX OF NAMES; SUBJECT INDEX
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Public opinion--Rome. Political culture--History.--Rome Communication in politics--History.--Rome