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Mass Oratory and
Political Power in the Late Robert Morstein-Marx
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This book highlights
the role played by public, political discourse in shaping the distribution of
power between Senate and People in the late Examples of contional orations, drawn chiefly from Cicero and Sallust, are subjected to an analysis that is influenced
by contemporary political theory and empirical studies of public opinion and
the media, rooted in a detailed examination of key events and institutional
structures, and illuminated by a vivid sense of the urban space in which the contio was set. |
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