Henriette van der Blom

Oratory and Political Career in the Late Roman Republic

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Produktbeschreibung

Oratory and Political Career in the Late Roman Republic is a pioneering investigation into the role of oratory in Roman Republican politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 717g
• ISBN-13: 9781107051935
• ISBN-10: 1107051932
• Artikelnr.: 45153346

Autorenporträt

Henriette van der Blom is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Birmingham. She has published extensively on Roman republican memory culture, oratory and politics, including Cicero's Role Models: The Political Strategy of a Newcomer (OUP 2010) and Community and Communication: Oratory and Politics in Republican Rome (with C. Steel; OUP 2013). Her next monograph is Oratory and Political Career in the Late Roman Republic (CUP, forthcoming).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. The Role of Oratory in Roman Politics: 1. Oratorical settings and career possibilities
2. Other routes to political success
Part II. Themes and Oratorical Careers: 3. Tribunician oratory and family inheritance: Gaius Gracchus' political career
4. Politics behind the scenes: Pompeius' oratory and political career
5. The oratorical springboard: Caesar's political career
6. The oratory and career of Piso Caesoninus
7. Powerful profiling: Cato the Younger and the impact of self-presentation
8. Career-making in a time of crisis: Marcus Antonius' oratory
Conclusion: towards a new Brutus
Appendix 1. Gaius Gracchus' public speeches
Appendix 2. Pompius' public speeches
Appendix 3. Caesar's public speeches
Appendix 4. Piso's public speeches
Appendix 5. Cato's public speeches
Appendix 6. Marcus Antonius' public speeches.