Beschreibung:
Eleven new essays, from an international cast, trace the development of political culture in the Roman Republic. Themes include the flourishing of civic society, as with the introduction of the Roman Games, and the emergence of a theory of politeness. How was a Roman aristocrat formed? How did the term 'Optimates' develop from the middle Republic onwards? And how, especially, did the rhetoric of Cicero reflect and adapt to the pressures of civil war in the Republic's climactic and dying years?
Eleven new essays, from an international cast, trace the development of political culture in the Roman Republic. Themes include the flourishing of civic society, as with the introduction of the Roman Games, and the emergence of a theory of politeness. How was a Roman aristocrat formed? How did the term 'Optimates' develop from the middle Republic onwards? And how, especially, did the rhetoric of Cicero reflect and adapt to the pressures of civil war in the Republic's climactic and dying years?
Theory and practice in the Roman Republic: an introductionT.W. Hillard Origines ludorumT.P. Wiseman Optimates: an archaeologyA.M. Stone The law that Catulus passedBenjamin Kelly Priests and politicians - reflections on Livy and Cicero's de Domo SuaDavid F.C. Thomas Cicero's vir clarissimusSimon Whitehead What Caesar said: rhetoric and history in Sallust's Coniuratio Catilinae 51R.F. Tannenbaum Cato's opposition to Caesar in 59 BCJane Bellemore Cicero Fam. 16.21, Roman politeness, and the socialization of Marcus Cicero the YoungerJon Hall Style and ideology in the pro MarcelloB.A. Krostenko Lux and Lumen in Cicero's Rome: a metaphor for the Res Publica and her leaders?Kathryn Welch