Author(s): Henriette van der Blom
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2016
Language: English
Commentary: More best quality: added introduction.
Half-title
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Table of contents
Preface
List of abbreviations
Frontispiece
Introduction
Part I The role of oratory in Roman politics
1 Oratorical settings and career possibilities
The courts
The contio
The senate
Oratorical settings and career moves
2 Other routes to political success
Ancestry
Wealth
Patronage and networks
Military career
Intangible factors
Factors for electoral and political success in context
Part II Themes and oratorical careers
3 Tribunician oratory and family inheritance
Stepping onto the political scene: Gaius’ early career
Emulation and innovation: the first tribunate
Oratorical competition and fading popularity: the second tribunate
Gaius’ final speech
Conclusion
4 Politics behind the scenes
The returning general and the rhetoric of self-praise
Oratory in the face of opposition
The politics of ambiguity and abstention
Conclusion
5 The oratorical springboard
The young prosecutor
A friend of the people
Towards the consulship
The choice of career
The oratorical springboard
6 The oratory and career of Piso Caesoninus
Piso’s early career: the power of ancestry
The ambitious consul in Epicurean clothes
The average orator?
The moderate and moderating censor
The senior consular after the Ides
Conclusion
7 Powerful profiling
Early career
Establishing a career and persona
The great filibusterer
Fame and electoral defeat
The approaching civil war and second electoral defeat
Conclusion: Cato’s public profile
8 Career-making in a time of crisis
From quaestor to consul
Consul
Proconsul
Conclusion
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Gaius Gracchus’ public speeches
Appendix 2: Pompeius’ public speeches
Appendix 3: Caesar’s public speeches
Appendix 4: Piso’s public speeches
Appendix 5: Cato’s public speeches
Appendix 6: Marcus Antonius’ public speeches
Bibliography
Index locorum
Subject index
