Table of Contents

Acknowledgemnets
List of contributors
List of abbreviations
IntroductionHenriette van der Blom and Catherine Steel:
Part I: Citizens, Speech and the Roman res publica
1: Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp: Friends, Romans, Countrymen: addressing the Roman people and the rhetoric of inclusion
2: Robert Morstein-Marx: Cultural hegemony and the communicative power of the Roman elite
3: Martin Jehne: Feeding the plebs with words: the significance of senatorial public oratory in the small word of Roman politics
4: Henrik Mouritsen: From meeting to text: the contio in the late Republic
Part II: Strategy and Tactics in Public Speech
5: Harriet I. Flower: Beyond the contio: political communication in the tribunate of Tiberius Gracchus
6: Amy Russell: Speech, competition, and collaboration: tribunician politics and the development of popular ideology
7: James Tan: Publius Clodius and the boundaries of the contio
8: W. Jeffrey Tatum: Campaign rhetoric
9: Catherine Steel: Pompeius, Helvius Mancia and the politics of popular debate
Part III: Judgments and Criticisms
10: Jakob Wisse: The bad orator: between clumsy delivery and political danger
11: Valentina Arena: The orator and his audience: the rhetorical perspective
12: John Dugan: Cicero and the politics of ambiguity
Part IV: Romans and non-Romans
13: Elena Torregaray Pagola: The Roman ambassador s speech: public oratory on the diplomatic stage
14: Francisco Pina Polo: Foreign eloquence in the Roman senate
15: Jonathan R.W. Prag: The provincial perspective on the politics of repetundae trials
Part V: Cicero s Rivals
16: Cristina Rosillo López: The common (mediocris) orator: the Scribonii Curiones
17: Henriette van der Blom: Fragmentary Speeches: the oratory and political career of Piso Caesoninus
18: Andrea Balbo: Marcus Junius Brutus the orator: between philosophy and rhetoric
19: Trevor Mahy: Antonius, triumvir and orator: career, style and effectiveness
Bibliography
Indices

About the Author

Catherine Steel is Professor of Classics at the University of Glasgow, and is author of numerous books and articles on Cicero, Roman oratory, and Roman political history.
Henriette van der Blom is Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford University and has previously published Cicero's Role Models (Oxford University Press, 2010) as well as articles on Cicero and Roman political life.