Cristina Rosillo-López

Public Opinion and Politics in the Late Roman Republic

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the working mechanisms of public opinion in the politics of Late Republican Rome.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9781316508442
• ISBN-10: 1316508447
• Artikelnr.: 60018772

Autorenporträt

Cristina Rosillo-López is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville. Her first book, La corruption à la fin de la République romaine: aspects politiques et financiers (2010), studied corruption during the Late Roman Republic, and received the Maestranza Order Research Award 2013. She has also written several articles and book chapters about politics, popular political culture, financial matters and rhetoric in the Late Roman Republic.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Public opinion in Rome: definition, models and constraints
2. Sociability and politics
3. Rumours, gossips and conversations in Roman political life
4. Political literature and public opinion (I): defining political literature
5. Political literature and public opinion (II): genres of political literature
6. Groups and agents of public opinion
7. Rhetoric and public opinion: theory and practice
8. Conclusions.