Public Opinion and Politics in the Late Roman Republic
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- Author: Cristina Rosillo-López, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain
- Date Published: July 2017
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107145078
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This book investigates the working mechanisms of public opinion in Late Republican Rome as a part of informal politics. It explores the political interaction (and sometimes opposition) between the elite and the people through various means, such as rumours, gossip, political literature, popular verses and graffiti. It also proposes the existence of a public sphere in Late Republican Rome and analyses public opinion in that time as a system of control. By applying the spatial turn to politics, it becomes possible to study sociability and informal meetings where public opinion circulated. What emerges is a wider concept of the political participation of the people, not just restricted to voting or participating in the assemblies.
Read more- Argues that public opinion existed in the Late Roman Republic and analyses its working mechanisms
- Explores a wider approach to the political participation of the people
- Applies the spatial turn to politics in order to locate informal politics in its actual archaeological settings
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- Date Published: July 2017
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107145078
- length: 280 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 158 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.54kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Public opinion in Rome: definition, models and constraints
2. Sociability and politics
3. Rumours, gossips and conversations in Roman political life
4. Political literature and public opinion (I): defining political literature
5. Political literature and public opinion (II): genres of political literature
6. Groups and agents of public opinion
7. Rhetoric and public opinion: theory and practice
8. Conclusions.
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