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Political Conversations in Late Republican Rome (Hardcover)
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Political Conversations in Late Republican Rome (Hardcover)
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Political Conversations in Ciceronian Rome offers for the first
time a perspective of Roman politics through the proxy of
conversations and meetings. In Rome oral was the default mode of
communication in politics: oratory before the people in assemblies,
addresses and discussions in the Senate, speeches in the law
courts, rumours, and public opinion. We are familiar with the
notion that the Roman political world of the Late Republic included
lofty speeches and sessions of the Senate, but an important aspect
of Late-Republican politics revolved around senators talking among
themselves, chatting off in the corner. Only when they could not
reach each other in person, Roman senators and their peers resorted
to letters. This book intends to analyse political conversations
and illuminate the oral dimension of Roman politics. It posits that
the study of politics should not be restricted to the senatorial
group, but that other persons should be considered as important
political actors with their own agency (albeit in different
degrees), such as freedmen and elite women. It argues that Roman
senators and their entourages met in person to have conversations
in which they discussed politics, circulated political information
and negotiated strategies; this extra-institutional sphere had a
relevant impact both on politics and institutions as well as
determined how the Roman Republic functioned.
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