This paper, which serves to introduce the studies collected in this dossier, examines the practical reality of free speech in the Roman and later Roman empires. The Roman Empire had few legal restrictions on speech and imperial officials who were thought to punish critical speech generally provoked hostile reactions. Social pressures and the danger that certain types of speech would adversely affect one’s career did much more to limit what people said and wrote. At the same time, modern readers need to be cautious lest they overanalyze moments where ancient authors use coded language. Some of this may well be an attempt to communicate controversial ideas without facing social or political consequences, but many cases of coded speech instead...
"This volume aims to address the question of political communication in the Roman world. It draws up...
International audienceThe seemingly excessive position of the discourses within the Roman Antiquitie...
Drawing the situation of the Imperial roman society, through a part of her population, the freedmen’...
This paper, which serves to introduce the studies collected in this dossier, examines the practical ...
The censorship was one of the Roman Republic's most significant magistracies. The range and importan...
International audienceThis article is part of the project carried out by the GRDI Les Mondes Lettrés...
In Imperial Rome, freedom of speech is limited, especially when it comes to being critical of the re...
In Imperial Rome, freedom of speech is limited, especially when it comes to being critical of the re...
Ancient Greece is often seen as the cradle of democracy, of free thought and of free speech. This ar...
The empires of the 8th Century (Western Europe, Byzantium, Islam) are governed in the name of religi...
International audienceThe Roman Index continually banned publications throughout the “Christian Repu...
Transition from republic to principate brought a meaningful alteration in the area of conceiving fre...
(Statement of Responsibility) by Alana Gold(Thesis) Thesis (B.A.) -- New College of Florida, 2022R...
The paper investigates the resources available in Roman thought over time to conceptualize the empir...
"This volume aims to address the question of political communication in the Roman world. It draws up...
International audienceThe seemingly excessive position of the discourses within the Roman Antiquitie...
Drawing the situation of the Imperial roman society, through a part of her population, the freedmen’...
This paper, which serves to introduce the studies collected in this dossier, examines the practical ...
The censorship was one of the Roman Republic's most significant magistracies. The range and importan...
International audienceThis article is part of the project carried out by the GRDI Les Mondes Lettrés...
In Imperial Rome, freedom of speech is limited, especially when it comes to being critical of the re...
In Imperial Rome, freedom of speech is limited, especially when it comes to being critical of the re...
Ancient Greece is often seen as the cradle of democracy, of free thought and of free speech. This ar...
The empires of the 8th Century (Western Europe, Byzantium, Islam) are governed in the name of religi...
International audienceThe Roman Index continually banned publications throughout the “Christian Repu...
Transition from republic to principate brought a meaningful alteration in the area of conceiving fre...
(Statement of Responsibility) by Alana Gold(Thesis) Thesis (B.A.) -- New College of Florida, 2022R...
The paper investigates the resources available in Roman thought over time to conceptualize the empir...
"This volume aims to address the question of political communication in the Roman world. It draws up...
International audienceThe seemingly excessive position of the discourses within the Roman Antiquitie...
Drawing the situation of the Imperial roman society, through a part of her population, the freedmen’...