Popular Public Opinion in a Nutshell: Nicknames and Non-Elite Political Culture in the Late Republic

Rosillo-López, Cristina; Grig, Lucy

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“…Condurre un'analisi del tipo di Marco Erennio a partire da un'interpretazione eneica risulterebbe semplicemente arbitrario. Giova ricordare in tal senso i contributi della Bitto (1990;2004), basati su un'interpretazione eneica della raffigurazione scelta da Erennio. L'identificazione con l'eroe troiano si basa essenzialmente sul successivo denario coniato da Livineio Regolo per conto di Ottaviano (Fig.…”

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Pietas popularis? Riflessi di ideologia graccano-popolare nei tipi monetali di M. Herennius (RRC 308)

Zanin¹

2018

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Around the year 108 B.C., the triumvir monetalis M. Herennius issued denarii which bore the portrait of Pietas on the obverse and one of the Catanean brothers carrying his parent on the reverse. This article aims to demonstrate that previous interpretations of these types as narrow allusions to the history of the gens are fallacious. Accordingly, new arguments are provided in order to give value to the political-ideological context of the last decades of the II century B.C.: in these years, pietas emerged alongside libertas as a fundamental value of the popularis ideological construct. This tradition was inspired by the oratorical and literary self-representation of Gaius Gracchus, that made his pietas erga fratrem and the pious portrayal of the family an important pillar of his legitimiz ing agenda. The political heirs of the Gracchi, such as C. Memmius and L. Apuleius Saturninus, continued to claim vengeance for the killed brothers and to blame the behaviour of the optimates – so that pietas remained a profitable slogan of the popularis political tradition. In this respect, Aetna’s eruptions in the Gracchan period and their explanation as prodigia formed an ideal humus for actualising the type of the Catanean brothers as catalyzing reference to the pietas popularis.

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Pietas popularis? Riflessi di ideologia graccano-popolare nei tipi monetali di M. Herennius (RRC 308)

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2018

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Frugalitas, or: The Invention of a Roman Virtue

Gildenhard¹

2020

Roman Frugality

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Political Conversations in Late Republican Rome

Rosillo-López¹

2021

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We are familiar with the notion that the Roman political world of the Late Republic included lofty speeches and sessions of the Senate, but also need to remember that another important aspect of Late Republican politics revolved around senators talking among themselves, chatting in the corner. The present book intends to analyse senatorial political conversations and illuminate the oral aspects of Roman politics. It argues that Roman senators and their entourages met in person to have conversations in which they discussed politics, circulated political information, and negotiated strategies; this extra-institutional sphere had a relevant impact both on politics and institutions, as well as determining how the Roman Republic functioned. The main point of this book is to offer a new perspective on Roman politics through the proxy of conversations and meetings. Orality has represented an important component in analysis of Roman institutions: oratory before the people in assemblies and contiones, addresses and discussions in the Senate, speeches in the law courts. Orality was also crucial in rumours and public opinion. The present research posits that, in Rome, oral was the default mode of communication in politics, especially outside institutions. Only when they could not reach each other in person did Roman senators and their peers resort to letters. The book suggests that the study of politics should not be restricted to the senatorial group, but that other persons should be considered as important actors with their own agency (albeit in different degrees), such as freedmen and elite women.

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Popular Public Opinion in a Nutshell: Nicknames and Non-Elite Political Culture in the Late Republic

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Pietas popularis? Riflessi di ideologia graccano-popolare nei tipi monetali di M. Herennius (RRC 308)

Pietas popularis? Riflessi di ideologia graccano-popolare nei tipi monetali di M. Herennius (RRC 308)

Frugalitas, or: The Invention of a Roman Virtue

Political Conversations in Late Republican Rome

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