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1. Imagining the Roman Emperor : Perceptions of Rulers in the High Empire

Author

Panayiotis Christoforou and Panayiotis Christoforou

Subjects
Emperors in literature, Public opinion--Rome, Emperors--Rome--Public opinion, Folklore--Rome, Emperors--Rome--Folklore
Abstract

How was the Roman emperor viewed by his subjects? How strongly did their perception of his role shape his behaviour? Adopting a fresh approach, Panayiotis Christoforou focuses on the emperor from the perspective of his subjects across the Roman Empire. Stress lies on the imagination: the emperor was who he seemed, or was imagined, to be. Through various vignettes employing a wide range of sources, he analyses the emperor through the concerns and expectations of his subjects, which range from intercessory justice to fears of the monstrosities associated with absolute power. The book posits that mythical and fictional stories about the Roman emperor form the substance of what people thought about him, which underlines their importance for the historical and political discourse that formed around him as a figure. The emperor emerges as an ambiguous figure. Loved and hated, feared and revered, he was an object of contradiction and curiosity.

Published
2023

2. Communicating Public Opinion in the Roman Republic

Author

Cristina Rosillo-López and Cristina Rosillo-López

Subjects
Communication in politics--Rome--History, Political culture--Rome--History, Public opinion--Rome
Abstract

From assemblies to courts of justice, from the Senate to the battlefield, from Rome to the provinces: public opinion could vary and take many guises. Roman politicians were aware of its existence and influence, and engaged with it. This e-book offers a study of public opinion in the Roman Republic, with an emphasis from the 3rd to 1st centuries BC. It focusses on four main issues: nature and components of public opinion; public opinion in relation to military and administrative questions; the interaction between public opinion and public dialogue and, finally, the transmission of public opinion. It furthermore asks the following question: Who was the populus Romanus? How did public opinion influence specific political or military decisions? Can Habermas'view of public opinion be applied to the Roman Republic? How was the rhetoric of fear applied to public opinion? Drawing on the more recent interpretations of Roman Republic, this volume studies the mechanisms that make public opinion and politics work at many different levels. It provides an engaging view on political communication and the interaction between the elite and the people.

Published
2019

3. After the daggers : politics and persuasion after the assassination of Caesar

Author

Mahy, Trevor Bryan, Smith, Christopher, and Woolf, Greg

Subjects
930, Rome -- History -- Republic, 44 - 43 BC, Rome -- Politics & government -- Republic, 44 - 43 BC, Persuasion (Rhetoric), Oratory, Ancient, Cicero, Marcus Tullius, Brutus, Marcus Iunius, DG268.M25, Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Philippicae, Persuasion (Rhetoric), Persuasion (Psychology), Persuasion (Psychology), Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin--History and criticism, Communication in politics--Rome--History, Public opinion--Rome, Rome--History--Republic, 265-30 B.C., Rome--History--Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D., Rome--Politics and government--265-30 B.C.
Abstract

In this thesis, I examine the nature and role of persuasion in Roman politics in the period immediately following the assassination of Caesar on the Ides of March 44 B.C. until the capture of the city of Rome by his heir Octavianus in August 43 B.C. The purpose of my thesis is to assess the extent to which persuasion played a critical role in political interactions and in the decision-making processes of those involved during this crucial period in Roman history. I do this by means of a careful discussion and analysis of a variety of different types of political interactions, both public and private. As regards the means of persuasion, I concentrate on the role and use of oratory in these political interactions. Consequently, my thesis owes much in terms of approach to the work of Millar (1998) and, more recently, Morstein-Marx (2004) on placing oratory at the centre of our understanding of how politics functioned in practice in the late Roman republic. Their studies, however, focus on the potential extent and significance of mass participation in the late Roman republican political system, and on the contio as the key locus of political interaction. In my thesis, I contribute to improving our new way of understanding late Roman republican politics by taking a broader approach that incorporates other types of political interactions in which oratory played a significant role. I also examine oratory as but one of a variety of means of persuasion in Roman political interactions. Finally, in analyzing politics and persuasion in the period immediately after Caesar’s assassination, I am examining not only a crucial period in Roman history, but one which is perhaps the best documented from the ancient world. The relative richness of contemporary evidence for this period calls out for the sort of close reading of sources and detailed analysis that I provide in my thesis that enables a better understanding of how politics actually played out in the late Roman republic.

Published
2010

4. The Language of Empire : Rome and the Idea of Empire From the Third Century BC to the Second Century AD

Author

John Richardson and John Richardson

Subjects
Imperialism--Public opinion, Public opinion--Rome, Imperialism
Abstract

The Roman Empire has been an object of fascination for the past two millennia, and the story of how a small city in central Italy came to dominate the whole of the Mediterranean basin, most of modern Europe and the lands of Asia Minor and the Middle East, has often been told. It has provided the model for European empires from Charlemagne to Queen Victoria and beyond, and is still the basis of comparison for investigators of modern imperialisms. By an exhaustive investigation of the changing meanings of certain key words and their use in the substantial remains of Roman writings and in the structures of Roman political life, this book seeks to discover what the Romans themselves thought about their imperial power in the centuries in which they conquered the known world and formed the empire of the first and second centuries AD.

Published
2008

5. Celts and the Classical World

Author

David Rankin and David Rankin

Subjects
Celts, Celts--Public opinion, Public opinion--Greece, Public opinion--Rome
Abstract

To observe the Celts through the eyes of the Greeks and Romans is the first aim of this book.

Published
1996

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