Oratory and political career in the late Roman republic / Henriette van der Blom, University of Birmingham.

Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Preface; List of abbreviations; Frontispiece; Introduction; Part I The role of oratory in Roman politics; 1 Oratorical settings and career possibilities; The courts; The contio; The senate; Oratorical settings and career moves; 2 Other routes to political success; Ancestry; Wealth; Patronage and networks; Military career; Intangible factors; Factors for electoral and political success in context; Part II Themes and oratorical careers; 3 Tribunician oratory and family inheritance

Stepping onto the political scene: Gaius' early careerEmulation and innovation: the first tribunate; Oratorical competition and fading popularity: the second tribunate; Gaius' final speech; Conclusion; 4 Politics behind the scenes; The returning general and the rhetoric of self-praise; Oratory in the face of opposition; The politics of ambiguity and abstention; Conclusion; 5 The oratorical springboard; The young prosecutor; A friend of the people; Towards the consulship; The choice of career; The oratorical springboard; 6 The oratory and career of Piso Caesoninus

Piso's early career: the power of ancestryThe ambitious consul in Epicurean clothes; The average orator?; The moderate and moderating censor; The senior consular after the Ides; Conclusion; 7 Powerful profiling; Early career; Establishing a career and persona; The great filibusterer; Fame and electoral defeat; The approaching civil war and second electoral defeat; Conclusion: Cato's public profile; 8 Career-making in a time of crisis; From quaestor to consul; Consul; Proconsul; Conclusion; Conclusion; Appendix 1: Gaius Gracchus' public speeches; Appendix 2: Pompeius' public speeches

Appendix 3: Caesar's public speechesAppendix 4: Piso's public speeches; Appendix 5: Cato's public speeches; Appendix 6: Marcus Antonius' public speeches; Bibliography; Index locorum; Subject index