TY - BOOK ID - 52411238 TI - Institutions and ideology in Republican Rome AU - Blom, Henriette van der AU - Gray, Christa AU - Steel, C E W PY - 2018 SN - 9781108429016 9781108681476 9781108452861 1108429017 1108606156 1108621716 1108681476 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Oratory, Ancient. KW - Political oratory KW - Rhetoric, Ancient. KW - Rome KW - History KW - Politics and government KW - Oratory, Ancient KW - Rhetoric, Ancient KW - Rome ancienne KW - --Politique et gouvernement KW - --République KW - --Rhétorique KW - --Oratoire KW - --Rome KW - Political oratory - Rome KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - République KW - Rhétorique KW - Oratoire KW - Rome - Politics and government - 265-30 B.C. KW - Rome - History - Republic, 265-30 B.C. KW - Politics and government. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:52411238 AB - This volume brings together a distinguished international group of researchers to explore public speech in Republican Rome in its institutional and ideological contexts. The focus throughout is on the interaction between argument, speaker, delivery and action. The chapters consider how speeches acted alongside other factors - such as the identity of the speaker, his alliances, the deployment of invective against opponents, physical location and appearance of other members of the audience, and non-rhetorical threats or incentives - to affect the beliefs and behaviour of the audience. Together they offer a range of approaches to these issues and bring attention back to the content of public speech in Republican Rome as well as its form and occurrence. The book will be of interest not only to ancient historians, but also to those working on ancient oratory and to historians and political theorists working on public speech. ER -