Quintus Cicero: A Brief Handbook on Canvassing for Office (Commentariolum Petitionis)
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 27 September 2018
- ISBN 9780198153078
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages354 pages
- Size 223x146x26 mm
- Weight 584 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 black-and-white figures 0
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Short description:
Rome's annual elections were central to civic and political life, and Quintus Cicero's Brief Handbook is our fullest account of campaigning for office in the republican era. This new translation with introduction and commentary offers a detailed examination of this important text, treating both its historical and literary dimensions.
MoreLong description:
Rome's annual elections were central to the relationship between its citizenry and political leadership, and canvassing for office played no small part in their outcomes. The Brief Handbook on Canvassing for Office (Commentariolum Petitionis), composed by Quintus Cicero for his elder brother, the famous orator and statesman Marcus, is our fullest account of campaigning for office in republican Rome, incorporating candid advice on how best to mobilize political support from voters of every social class alongside searing political vituperation.
This volume offers both the Latin text and a fresh translation of the Brief Handbook, as well as the first scholarly commentary on the text in the English language. Its purpose is to aid readers in their appreciation of the Brief Handbook in its multiple guises: as a literary text, an ideological document, a likely specimen of electoral propaganda, and a resource for recovering various aspects of late republican political and cultural history, such as group identities, Roman friendship, and civic rituals. While the comprehensive commentary clarifies the cultural, historical, and literary problems of the text, an incisive introduction supplies the reader with an account of the nature and practice of elections and canvassing for office in the late republic, as well as a detailed rehearsal of particular aspects of Cicero's career that provides the necessary context for understanding his campaign for the consulship in 64. The introduction also examines the literary dimensions of the work, and particularly the question of its authorship: considerations that are crucial to its proper interpretation as a historical source.
T.'s treatment succeeds admirably both in introducing the text to those approaching it for the first time, and also in arguing for a more nuanced appreciation of the text's literary qualities and historical specificity. It will be of interest to all those concerned with late republican politics and culture, as well as indispensable for those studying the Handbook itself.
Table of Contents:
Frontmatter
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
INTRODUCTION
I. A Brief Handbook on Canvassing for Office (Commentariolum Petitionis)
II. Elections
III. Canvassing
IV. The Design(s) of the Brief Handbook
V. Authorship
VI. Quintus Tullius Cicero
VII. Cicero the Office Seeker
VIII. Text and Translation
Appendix A: Roman Nomenclature
Appendix B: Abbreviations and References in Watt's Critical Apparatus
TEXT AND TRANSLATION
COMMENTARY
Endmatter
Bibliography
Index
