Recent scholarship has emphasised that ancient oratory was
primarily a performance art. At Rome during the Republican period,
public speaking was one of the most important ways in which
politicians created support for themselves among the citizen body.
The change of political system to a monarchy transformed the
functions of oratory but left its importance as an elite skill
intact. This New Survey offers an introduction to the topic, and
the modern scholarship on it, which emphasises the fact that the
occasions of speaking were prior to subsequent written texts.
Without ignoring Cicero as the major surviving textual exemplar of
a Roman orator, this book establishes a context for his achievement
within the preoccupation with public speaking common to the Roman
elite as a whole and considers what oratorical education and
practice at Rome can say about wider norms of elite behaviour.
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