Community and Communication

<br>Catherine Steel is Professor of Classics at the University of Glasgow, and is author of numerous books and articles on Cicero, Roman oratory, and Roman political history. <br>Henriette van der Blom is Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford University and has previously published Cicero's Role Models (Oxford University Press, 2010) as well as articles on Cicero and Roman political life.<br>

ACKNOWLEDGEMNETS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: CITIZENS, SPEECH AND THE ROMAN RES PUBLICA; 1. Friends, Romans, Countrymen: addressing the Roman people and the rhetoric of inclusion; 2. Cultural hegemony and the communicative power of the Roman elite; 3. Feeding the plebs with words: the significance of senatorial public oratory in the small word of Roman politics; 4. From meeting to text: the contio in the late Republic; PART II: STRATEGY AND TACTICS IN PUBLIC SPEECH; 5. Beyond the contio: political communication in the tribunate of Tiberius Gracchus; 6. Speech, competition, and collaboration: tribunician politics and the development of popular ideology; 7. Publius Clodius and the boundaries of the contio; 8. Campaign rhetoric; 9. Pompeius, Helvius Mancia and the politics of popular debate; PART III: JUDGMENTS AND CRITICISMS; 10. The bad orator: between clumsy delivery and political danger; 11. The orator and his audience: the rhetorical perspective; 12. Cicero and the politics of ambiguity; PART IV: ROMANS AND NON-ROMANS; 13. The Roman ambassador s speech: public oratory on the diplomatic stage; 14. Foreign eloquence in the Roman senate; 15. The provincial perspective on the politics of repetundae trials; PART V: CICERO S RIVALS; 16. The common (mediocris) orator: the Scribonii Curiones; 17. Fragmentary Speeches: the oratory and political career of Piso Caesoninus; 18. Marcus Junius Brutus the orator: between philosophy and rhetoric; 19. Antonius, triumvir and orator: career, style and effectiveness; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDICES