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  • Chapter 3 - Political Participation and the Identification of Politicians in the Late Roman Republic

  • from Part I - Modes of Political Communication
  • Edited by Henriette van der Blom, University of Birmingham, Christa Gray, University of Reading, Catherine Steel, University of Glasgow
  • Book:
    Institutions and Ideology in Republican Rome
    Published online:
    08 May 2018
    Print publication:
    17 May 2018, pp 69-87

  • Summary

    The engagement of Roman citizens in politics has been a much debated issue. Scholars have tried to measure it by calculating the number of people who voted, or who attended the contiones. However, with the state of the sources, quantification can be unreliable or, in some cases, an educated guess. This paper proposes a possible alternative way of identifying popular interest in Late Republican politics. Did Roman people usually recognise politicians physically or by name? Cicero was shocked when, back from what he thought a glorious quaestorship in Sicily, his name was not recognised. A citizen who attended assemblies or who went to the Forum would in theory be able to identify some politicians, especially the most prominent ones. After his consulship, did Cicero walk around the city without being identified? Or Caesar? What about second- or third-rate politicians? Cases of misidentification of politicians also clarify this issue. Popular verses criticising first-rate or even second-rate politicians helped to spread their names across the city. In sum, recognition of politicians, either by their features or by their names, represents a way to understand and gauge non-elite implication into politics.

Public Opinion and Politics in the Late Roman Republic
  • Cristina Rosillo-López
  • Published online:
    03 June 2017
    Print publication:
    01 June 2017
  • This book investigates the working mechanisms of public opinion in Late Republican Rome as a part of informal politics. It explores the political interaction (and sometimes opposition) between the elite and the people through various means, such as rumours, gossip, political literature, popular verses and graffiti. It also proposes the existence of a public sphere in Late Republican Rome and analyses public opinion in that time as a system of control. By applying the spatial turn to politics, it becomes possible to study sociability and informal meetings where public opinion circulated. What emerges is a wider concept of the political participation of the people, not just restricted to voting or participating in the assemblies.

  • Chapter 5 - Political Literature and Public Opinion (II)

  • Cristina Rosillo-López, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain
  • Book:
    Public Opinion and Politics in the Late Roman Republic
    Published online:
    03 June 2017
    Print publication:
    01 June 2017, pp 119-154
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