Public Opinion and Politics in the Late Roman Republic

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Public Opinion in Rome : Definition, models and Cosstraints ..6 How public Opinion was expressed and understood in the late roman Republic ...6 Public opinion and the debate on the political nature of the late roman Republic.......12 Public Opinion and informal Politics ....16 Theoretical Considerations and models of public Opinion ....18 Censorship and public opinion during the late roman Republic ....27 2. Sociability and politics ..42 The physical Background of public Opinion : Walking and promendading as a political tool...........43 Location and occations of sociability and public opinion in rome ..........47 3. Rumours, Gossip and Conversations in Roman Political Life .75 Rumours and politics in Rome ......78 circulation of Rumours outside rome ........87 Rumours, gossip and social Discipline ...93 4. Political Literature and public Opinon: Defining political Literature ....98 authership.......102 Audience and literacy ....106 Distribution and circulation ...........109 5. Political Literature and public Opinion : Genres of political Literature ......119 Satura, verse, pupular verse .......131 Political Literature in Prose ....132 6. Groups and agents of public Opinion ...155 Groups of public Opinion ....157 Leaders and movers of public opinion ....171 Disseminators of news and public Opinion .......175 Misreading public Opinion: The case of caesar`s Murder.187 7. Rhetoric and public opinion: Theory and practice ..196 How to deal with the audience according to latin rhetoricians .............197 The orator before public opinion .............201 Public Opinion in practice in the courts of Justice ......204 8. Public Opinion and the public sphere in the late roman Republic ...................219 Public Opinion in the early principate ......229