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Book SynopsisThis title includes eleven new essays, from an international cast that trace the development of political culture in the Roman Republic. Themes include the flourishing of civic society, as with the introduction of the Roman Games, and the emergence of a theory of politeness. How was a Roman aristocrat formed? How did the term 'Optimates' develop from the middle Republic onwards? And how, especially, did the rhetoric of Cicero reflect and adapt to the pressures of civil war in the Republic's climactic and dying years?
Table of ContentsT.W. Hillard (Macquarie University), 'Theory and practice in the Roman Republic: an introduction'; T.P. Wiseman (Exeter University), 'Origines ludorum'; A.M. Stone (University of Sydney), 'Optimates: an archaeology'; Benjamin Kelly, 'The law that Catulus passed'; David F.C. Thomas (University of Sydney), Priests and politicians - reflections on Livy and Cicero's de Domo Sua'; Simon Whitehead (University of Sydney), 'Cicero's vir clarissimus'; R.F. Tannenbaum (University of Sydney), 'What Caesar said: rhetoric and history in Sallust's Coniuratio Catilinae 51'; Jane Bellemore (University of Newcastle, NSW), 'Cato's opposition to Caesar in 59 B.C.'; Jon Hall (Otago University), 'Cicero Fam. 16.21, Roman politeness, and the socialization of Marcus Cicero the Younger'; B. A. Krostenko (University of Notre Dame), 'Style and ideology in the pro Marcello'; Kathryn Welch (University of Sydney), 'Lux and Lumen in Cicero's Rome: a metaphor for the Res Publica and her leaders?'
