L'A. etudie la signification politique de l'episode de la conspiration de Cinadon que Xen... more L'A. etudie la signification politique de l'episode de la conspiration de Cinadon que Xenophon relate dans ses «Helleniques». Au-dela d'un interet purement historique, Xenophon voit dans l'evenement l'occasion de renforcer son admiration pour Agesilas, roi de Sparte, plutot que de soulever la question des tensions sociales a Sparte
In the second century scores of Roman ambassadors departed for the Greek East, and scores of amba... more In the second century scores of Roman ambassadors departed for the Greek East, and scores of ambassadors set out from the Greek states to Rome in order to bring their requests before the senate. In his report on the events of 173BC Livy informs us about such a letter from Rome and its consequences. The dossier of diplomatic exchanges between Rome and its Italian allies in the second century is not very extensive. Marianne Bonnefond- Coudry lists among her examples of foreign embassies in the senate for the period between 202 and 91BC eight from Italy. Nevertheless the Praenestines could have sent an embassy to the senate and demanded the punishment of the consul for threatening them. But it was questionable whether and when the senate would want to go into the matter. The work which the Praenestines would have had to perform was a work of lobbying. Keywords: diplomatic exchanges; foreign embassies; Livy; Praenestines; Roman ambassadors; Rome; second century scores; senate
in: Politische Partizipation. Idee und Wirklichkeit von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart, hg. von H. Reinau und J. v. Ungern-Sternberg (Colloquium Rauricum 13), Berlin / Boston 2013, 103-144, 2013
At the very end of book 3 of his Roman history, Livy tells us the strange story of P. Scaptius, a... more At the very end of book 3 of his Roman history, Livy tells us the strange story of P. Scaptius, a contionalis senex de plebe. According to this story, Scaptius did not only succeed to get to the platform and address the people, but, against the massive resistance of the consuls and the senators, he won the day with his suggestion that the people, arbiter in a territorial struggle between Ardea and Aricia, should vote the contested area to themselves. While this episode is certainly not historical, it is highly interesting for the comprehension of communicative structures in contiones which are analyzed in the paper. Some aspects are the roles of speakers and listeners in the assemblies, justification of supremacy by emphasising peritia vs. imperitia, the attractiveness of assemblies for the people, pudor as an upper-class virtue, the people’s greed as a risk for Roman policy, individual and collective auctoritas.
L'A. etudie la signification politique de l'episode de la conspiration de Cinadon que Xen... more L'A. etudie la signification politique de l'episode de la conspiration de Cinadon que Xenophon relate dans ses «Helleniques». Au-dela d'un interet purement historique, Xenophon voit dans l'evenement l'occasion de renforcer son admiration pour Agesilas, roi de Sparte, plutot que de soulever la question des tensions sociales a Sparte
In the second century scores of Roman ambassadors departed for the Greek East, and scores of amba... more In the second century scores of Roman ambassadors departed for the Greek East, and scores of ambassadors set out from the Greek states to Rome in order to bring their requests before the senate. In his report on the events of 173BC Livy informs us about such a letter from Rome and its consequences. The dossier of diplomatic exchanges between Rome and its Italian allies in the second century is not very extensive. Marianne Bonnefond- Coudry lists among her examples of foreign embassies in the senate for the period between 202 and 91BC eight from Italy. Nevertheless the Praenestines could have sent an embassy to the senate and demanded the punishment of the consul for threatening them. But it was questionable whether and when the senate would want to go into the matter. The work which the Praenestines would have had to perform was a work of lobbying. Keywords: diplomatic exchanges; foreign embassies; Livy; Praenestines; Roman ambassadors; Rome; second century scores; senate
in: Politische Partizipation. Idee und Wirklichkeit von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart, hg. von H. Reinau und J. v. Ungern-Sternberg (Colloquium Rauricum 13), Berlin / Boston 2013, 103-144, 2013
At the very end of book 3 of his Roman history, Livy tells us the strange story of P. Scaptius, a... more At the very end of book 3 of his Roman history, Livy tells us the strange story of P. Scaptius, a contionalis senex de plebe. According to this story, Scaptius did not only succeed to get to the platform and address the people, but, against the massive resistance of the consuls and the senators, he won the day with his suggestion that the people, arbiter in a territorial struggle between Ardea and Aricia, should vote the contested area to themselves. While this episode is certainly not historical, it is highly interesting for the comprehension of communicative structures in contiones which are analyzed in the paper. Some aspects are the roles of speakers and listeners in the assemblies, justification of supremacy by emphasising peritia vs. imperitia, the attractiveness of assemblies for the people, pudor as an upper-class virtue, the people’s greed as a risk for Roman policy, individual and collective auctoritas.
This volume aims to address the question of political communication in the Roman world. It draws ... more This volume aims to address the question of political communication in the Roman world. It draws upon social sciences and the current trend for the historical study of political communication. The book tackles three main problems: What constitutes political communication in the Roman world? In what ways could information be transmitted and represented? What mechanisms made political communication successful or unsuccessful? This edited volume covers questions like speech and mechanisms of political communication, political communication at a distance, bottom-up communication, failure of communication and representation of political communication. It will be of help to specialists in the Roman world, but also to students and researchers of political sciences, and specialists of political communication in pre-industrial times.
Literatur zwischen den beiden Obersten Staatsorganen entstanden, nämlich die Macht des Princeps ü... more Literatur zwischen den beiden Obersten Staatsorganen entstanden, nämlich die Macht des Princeps über dem Senat, ob auch Augustus dieses Verhältnis erstrebt hatte oder nicht. Das vorliegende Werk überläßt es dem Leser, diesen oder andere Schlüsse zu ziehen. Es stellt an die Rechtshistoriker geradezu die Aufforderung, aufgrund der analysierten Quellenlage nun die Geschichte aus ihrem Blickwinkel auszuwerten. Nicht zuletzt in dieser Aufforderung liegt für uns das Verdienst des Autors, der durch seine Quellenforschung und Quellenauslegung auch eine beachtliche Menge rechtsgeschichtlicher Detailarbeit, besonders im Gebiet des ins publicum, geleistet hat. Seine Resultate werden z. B. die Darstellung magistratischer Kompetenz in Zukunft sicher beeinflussen. Literatur und Quellenangaben sind reichlich und präzise zusammengestellt. Besonders zu begrüßen ist dabei die auffallend zahlreiche englische Literatur, die sonst in dieser Tiefe schwer zu erreichen wäre. Dadurch wird vor Augen gestellt, daß im englischen Sprachgebiet die klassischen Studien — so auch die antike Rechtsgeschichte — immer mehr an Interesse gewinnt und bei Gesamt-betrachtungen wie auch bei Einzelfragen nicht mehr außer acht gelassen werden kann. Miskolc János Zlinszky Theodora Hantos, Res publica constituta, Die Verfassung des Dictators Sulla (= Hermes Einzelschriften, 50). Steiner, Stuttgart 1988. 176 S. Daß die Intensität der wissenschaftlichen Beschäftigung mit der sullanischen Verfassung nicht der Bedeutung des Gegenstandes entspricht, hebt Theodora Hantos (= H.) in der " Einleitung" (13—18) zu ihrer Braunschweiger Habili-tationsschrift mit Recht hervor. Sie führt dies vor allem auf zwei Phänomene zurück : Zum einen hat man zum Wirken Sullas häufig den biographischen Zugang gewählt 1), wobei seine Neuordnung des Gemeinwesens vielfach zu stark zurück-trat, zum anderen hat Mommsen eine meisterhafte Analyse geliefert, so daß über ihn kaum hinauszukommen war, solange man im Banne seiner Grund-anschauungen stand. H. löst sich nun von Mommsens institutionellem Ordnungs-schema Magistratur—Senat—Volksversammlung, da darin nicht die konstitutive Grundlage für die Verfassung zu sehen sei, und läßt sich bei der Anordnung der zahlreichen Einzelelemente des sullanischen Reformwerks von dem " sinnhaften Gesamtzusammenhang" (18) leiten, den sie herzustellen sucht. Der Einleitung gehen das Vorwort und ein Verzeichnis der abgekürzt zitierten Literatur (9 — 12) voran, es folgei). die beiden Hauptabschnitte der Arbeit, eine Zusammenfassung, ein Quellenregister (168 — 172) und ein Namen-und Sach
Nothing from the subsequent Augustan age can be fully explained without understanding the pre... more Nothing from the subsequent Augustan age can be fully explained without understanding the previous Triumviral period (43-31 BC). In this book, twenty experts from nine different countries and nineteen universities examine the Triumviral age not merely as a phase of transition to the Principate but as a proper period with its own dynamics and issues, which were a consequence of the previous years. The volume aims to address a series of underlying structural problems that emerged in that time, such as the legal nature of power attributed to the Triumvirs; changes and continuity in Republican institutions, both in Rome and the provinces of the Empire; the development of the very concept of civil war; the strategies of political communication and propaganda in order to win over public opinion; economic consequences for Rome and Italy, whether caused by the damage from constant wars or, alternatively, resulting from the proscriptions and confiscations carried out by the Triumvirs; and the transformation of Roman-Italian society. All these studies provide a complete, fresh and innovative picture of a key period that signaled the end of the Roman Republic.
With papers from:
F. Vervaet
F. Pina Polo
M-C Ferriès
V. Arena
F. Rohr Vio
C. Steel
M. Jehne
F. Hurlet
H. van der Blom
E. García Riaza
K. Welch
D. Maschek
C. Rosillo-López
M. García Morcillo
A. Díaz Fernández
A. Raggi
W. J. Tatum
C. Ando
C.H. Lange
H. Cornwell
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The book tackles three main problems: What constitutes political communication in the Roman world? In what ways could information be transmitted and represented? What mechanisms made political communication successful or unsuccessful?
This edited volume covers questions like speech and mechanisms of political communication, political communication at a distance, bottom-up communication, failure of communication and representation of political communication.
It will be of help to specialists in the Roman world, but also to students and researchers of political sciences, and specialists of political communication in pre-industrial times.
With papers from:
F. Vervaet
F. Pina Polo
M-C Ferriès
V. Arena
F. Rohr Vio
C. Steel
M. Jehne
F. Hurlet
H. van der Blom
E. García Riaza
K. Welch
D. Maschek
C. Rosillo-López
M. García Morcillo
A. Díaz Fernández
A. Raggi
W. J. Tatum
C. Ando
C.H. Lange
H. Cornwell