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Community and
Communication
Oratory and Politics in Republican Rome
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CATHERINE STEEL AND
HENRIETTE VAN DER BLOM
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Contents
Contributors vii
Abbreviations x
Introduction 1
HenriettevanderBlom&CatherineSteel
PartI: Citizens,Speech,andtheRomanResPublica
1. Friends,Romans,Countrymen:AddressingtheRomanPeople
andtheRhetoricofInclusion 11
Karl-J.Hölkeskamp
2. ‘CulturalHegemony’andtheCommunicativePowerof
theRomanElite 29
RobertMorstein-Marx
3. FeedingthePlebswithWords:TheSignificanceofSenatorialPublic
OratoryintheSmallWorldofRomanPolitics 49
MartinJehne
4. FromMeetingtoText:TheContiointheLateRepublic 63
HenrikMouritsen
PartII: StrategyandTacticsinPublicSpeech
5. BeyondtheContio:PoliticalCommunicationinthe
TribunateofTiberiusGracchus 85
HarrietI.Flower
6. Speech,Competition,andCollaboration:TribunicianPolitics
andtheDevelopmentofPopularIdeology 101
AmyRussell
7. PubliusClodiusandtheBoundariesoftheContio 117
JamesTan
8. CampaignRhetoric 133
W.JeffreyTatum
9. Pompeius,HelviusMancia,andthePoliticsofPublicDebate 151
CatherineSteel
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PartIII: JudgementsandCriticisms
10. TheBadOrator:BetweenClumsyDeliveryandPoliticalDanger 163
JakobWisse
11. TheOratorandHisAudience:TheRhetoricalPerspective
intheArtofDeliberation 195
ValentinaArena
12. CiceroandthePoliticsofAmbiguity:Interpreting
theProMarcello 211
JohnDugan
PartIV: RomansandNon-Romans
13. TheRomanAmbassador’sSpeech:PublicOratory
ontheDiplomaticStage 229
ElenaTorregarayPagola
14. ForeignEloquenceintheRomanSenate 247
FranciscoPinaPolo
15. Provincials,patrons,andtherhetoricofrepetundae 267
JonathanR.W.Prag
PartV: Cicero’sRivals
16. TheCommon(Mediocris)OratoroftheLateRepublic:
TheScriboniiCuriones 287
CristinaRosilloLópez
17. FragmentarySpeeches:TheOratoryandPolitical
CareerofPisoCaesoninus 299
HenriettevanderBlom
18. MarcusJuniusBrutustheOrator:BetweenPhilosophy
andRhetoric 315
AndreaBalbo
19. Antonius,TriumvirandOrator:Career,Style,
andEffectiveness 329
TrevorMahy
Bibliography 345
Index 379
Contributors
Dr Valentina Arena is Lecturer in Ancient History at University College,
London.Herworkfocusesontwointerlinkedlinesofinvestigation:thestudy
of Roman oratory and rhetorical techniques and the analysis of Roman
political thought and its relation with the practice of politics. On both areas
andtherelationwithoneanothershehaswrittenaseriesofstudies,culminat-
ingintheforthcomingmonograph,LibertasandthePracticeofPoliticsinthe
LateRomanRepublic(CambridgeUniversityPress).
Dr Andrea Balbo is Research Fellow and Lecturer in Latin Philology at the
UniversityofTurin,Italy.HeistheauthorofIframmentideglioratoriromani
dell’etàaugusteaetiberiana,i–ii(2004/2007)andnumerousarticlesonLatin
oratoryandrhetoric.
DrHenriettevanderBlomisResearchFellowinAncientHistoryatWolfson
College in the University of Oxford. She has published Cicero’s Role Models:
ThePoliticalStrategyofaNewcomer(2010)andfurtherarticlesonoratoryand
politicsintheRomanRepublic.
Professor John Dugan is Associate Professor in Classics at the University at
Buffalo,StateUniversityofNewYork.HispublishedworksincludeMakinga
New Man: Ciceronian Self-Fashioning in the Rhetorical Works (2005) and
articlesonrhetoricandintertextualityinCicero’sworks.
Professor Harriet I. Flower is Professor of Classics at Princeton University.
SheistheauthorofnumerousbooksontheRomanRepublicandearlyEmpire
including Ancestor Masks and Aristocratic Power in Roman Culture (1996),
The Art of Forgetting: Disgrace and Oblivion in Roman Political Culture
(2006),andRomanRepublics(2010).
ProfessorKarl-J.HölkeskampisProfessorofAncientHistoryattheUniver-
sity of Cologne. He has published an extensive number of books, edited
volumes, and articles in both Greek and Roman history including Die Ent-
stehung der Nobilität: Studien zur sozialen und politischen Geschichte der
römischen Republik im 4. Jhdt. v. Chr. (1987, 2nd edn. 2011), SENATVS
POPVLVSQVEROMANVS:DiepolitischeKulturderRepublik–Dimensionen
und Deutungen (2004), and Rekonstruktionen einer Republik: Die politische
Kultur des antiken Rom und die Forschung der letzten Jahrzehnte (2004;
Frenchedn.2008;updatedandaugmentedEnglishedn.2010).
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Professor Martin Jehne is Professor of Ancient History at the University of
Dresden. His research centres on Greek poleis and the Roman Republic and
has resulted in articles, collected volumes such as Demokratie in Rom? Die
RolledesVolkesinderPolitikderrömischenRepublik(1995),andmonographs
includingDerStaatdesDictatorsCaesar(1987),Caesar(1997,3rdedn.2004;
Italianedn.1999;Spanishedn.2001;Chineseedn.2002;audioedn.2007),Die
römische Republik: Von der Gründung bis Caesar (2006/2008; Italian edn.
2008),andDergroßeTrend,derkleineSachzwangunddashandelndeIndivi-
duum:CaesarsEntscheidungen(2009).
Dr Trevor Mahy is an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Ancient
ClassicsatNUIMaynooth.Heiscurrentlyworkingontheinterplaybetween
oratoryandpoliticsintheaftermathofCaesar’sassassinationaswellasonthe
useofspeechesinGreekandLatinhistoriography.
ProfessorRobertMorstein-MarxisProfessorofClassicsattheUniversityof
California at Santa Barbara. His publications include articles and books such
asHegemonytoEmpire:TheDevelopmentoftheRomanImperiumintheEast,
148-62 B.C. (1995), Mass Oratory and Political Power in the Late Roman
Republic (2004), and A Companion to the Roman Republic (co-edited with
N.S.Rosenstein,2006).
ProfessorHenrikMouritsenisProfessorofRomanHistoryatKing’sCollege
London.HeistheauthorofElections,MagistratesandMunicipalélite:Studies
in Pompeian Epigraphy (1988), Italian Unification: A Study in Ancient and
ModernHistoriography(1998),PlebsandPoliticsintheLateRomanRepublic
(2001), and The Freedman in the Roman World (2011), as well as numerous
articlesonRomanpoliticalhistory,Italy,andepigraphy.
ProfessorFranciscoPinaPoloisProfessorinAncientHistoryattheUniver-
sity of Zaragoza. His research centres on Roman political life and his major
monographsincludeLascontionescivilesymilitaresenRoma(1989),Contra
armaverbis:DerRednervordemVolkinderspätenrömischenRepublik(1996;
Spanishedn.1997),LacrisisdelaRepública(133-44a.C.)(1999),MarcoTulio
Cicerón (2005; German edn.: Rom, das bin ich: Marcus Tullius Cicero, ein
Leben, 2010), and The Consul at Rome: The Civil Functions of the Consuls in
theRomanRepublic(2011).
DrJonathanR.W.PragisaFellowofMertonCollegeandLecturerinAncient
History in the University of Oxford. He has written extensively on ancient
Sicily, epigraphy, Cicero’s Verrine speeches, Punic identity, and auxiliary
soldiers in the Roman army. He has edited Sicilia Nutrix Plebis Romanae:
Rhetoric, Law, and Taxation in Cicero’s Verrines (2007) and A Handbook to
Petronius (with I. D. Repath, 2009), and is currently editing The Hellenistic
West(withJ.Quinn).
Contributors ix
Dr Cristina Rosillo López is Lecturer in Economic History at Universidad
Pablo de Olavide, Seville. She has written La Corruption à la fin de la répub-
lique romaine: (Iie–Ier s. av. J.-C.): Aspects politiques et financiers (2010) as
wellasarticlesoneconomicaspects,pamphletculture,andpoliticallifeinthe
RomanRepublic.
Dr Amy Russell is Lecturer in Roman History at Durham University. She
researchespublicspaceintheRomanRepublicandistheauthorof‘Aemilius
PaullusSeesGreece:Travel,VisionandPowerinPolybius’,inC.SmithandL.
M.Yarrow(eds.),Imperialism,CulturalPolitics,andPolybius(2012).
ProfessorCatherineSteelisProfessorofClassicsattheUniversityofGlasgow.
ShehaswrittenextensivelyonRomanoratory,Cicero,andpoliticallifeinthe
Republic, including Cicero, Rhetoric, and Empire (2002), Reading Cicero:
GenreandPerformanceinLateRepublicanRome(2005),andRomanOratory
(2006).
Dr James Tan is Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Union College
(NY). He works on fiscal aspects of the Roman Republic and on the Roman
contio, and publications include his article ‘Contiones in the Age of Cicero’
(ClAnt.2008).
Professor W. JeffreyTatum is Professor in Classics at Victoria University of
Wellington(NZ).Hehaswrittennumerousarticlesandbooksonthepolitical
life in the Roman Republic including The Patrician Tribune: Publius Clodius
Pulcher(1999)andAlwaysIamCaesar(2008).
DrElenaTorregarayPagolaisLecturerinAncient HistoryattheUniversity
oftheBasqueCountry.Shecurrentlyworksondiplomacyintheancientworld
and has, alongside articles, published La elaboración de la tradición sobre los
CorneliiScipiones:Pasadohistóricoyconformaciónsimbólica(1998),Polibioy
la Península Ibérica (ed. with J. Santos, 2003), and Diplomacia y autorrepre-
sentaciónenlaRomaantigua(ed.withJ.Santos,2005).
ProfessorJakobWisseisProfessorofLatinLanguageandLiteratureatNew-
castle University. He works on ancient historiography and especially on
ancient rhetoric, which he studies from all angles. Apart from articles, he
haspublishedEthosandPathosfromAristotletoCicero(1989),atranslationof
Cicero’s de Oratore (Cicero, On the Ideal Orator with J. M. May, 2001), and
(alsoasco-author)vols.iv–vofthescholarlycommentaryon thesamework
(Heidelberg1996and2008).
