This volume aims to address the question of political communication in the Roman world. It draws upon social sciences and the current trend for the historical study of political communication. The book tackles three main problems: What constitutes political communication in the Roman world? In what ways could information be transmitted and represented? What mechanisms made political communication successful or unsuccessful? This edited volume covers questions like speech and mechanisms of political communication, political communication at a distance, bottom-up communication, failure of communication and representation of political communication. It will be of help to specialists in the Roman world, but also to students and researchers of political sciences, and specialists of political communication in pre-industrial times.
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Defining Public Speech in the Roman Republic :: Occasion, Audience and Purpose
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págs. 34-53
Intermediaries in Political Communication :: Adlegatio and its Uses
págs. 55-80
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Governing by Dispatching Letters :: The Hadrianic Chancellery
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The Roman Plebs and Rumour :: Social Interactions and Political Communication in the Early Principate
págs. 139-164
The Emperor is Dead¡: Rumours, Protest, and Political Opportunities in late Antiquity
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Why the Anti-Caesarians Failed :: Political Communicationon the Eve of Civil War (51 to 49 BC)
págs. 201-229
The Reception of Republican Political Communication :: Tacitus' Choice of Exemplary Republican Orators in Context
págs. 231-252
Retouching a Self-portrait (Or How to Adapt One's Image in Times of Political Change) :: The Case of Martial in theLight of Pliny the Younger
págs. 253-278
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