Reading Republican Oratory : Reconstructions, Contexts, Receptions

Public speech was a key aspect of politics in Republican Rome, yet the partial nature of the available evidence means that our understanding of its workings is dominated by one man: Cicero. This volume explores the oratory of the Roman Republic as practiced by individuals other than Cicero, focusing on the surviving fragments of such oratory.

Christa Gray, Lecturer in Classics, University of Reading,Andrea Balbo, Lecturer, University of Turin,Richard M. A. Marshall, Lecturer and Research Associate on the 'Fragments of the Republican Roman Orators' project, University of Glasgow,Catherine E. W. Steel, Professor of Classics, University of Glasgow

Christa Gray has been a Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading since January 2016 and was previously a Research Associate on the ERC-funded project 'Fragments of the Republican Roman Orators' at the University of Glasgow. She will be on research leave at the Humboldt University in Berlin until 2018 as a postdoctoral fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, working on an edition of Jerome's Vita Hilarionis.

Andrea Balbo is a Lecturer at the University of Turin and also teaches Latin language and literature at the University of Italian Switzerland in Lugano. His research interests include Roman oratory and rhetoric, declamation, late antique Latin literature, digital humanities, and the reception of Classics in modern literatures. He is currently preparing, with Catherine Schneider, a critical edition of Calpurnius, and an edition for Teubner of the fragmentary oratory of the Imperial period.

Richard Marshall is a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow and Research Associate on the ERC-funded project 'Fragments of the Republican Roman Orators'. His research interests include the Republican polymath Varro, the history of the book, and the transmission of classical literature. He is currently preparing a monograph on the reception of Varro in Late Antiquity.

Catherine Steel is Professor of Classics at the University of Glasgow, where she is Principal Investigator on the ERC-funded project 'Fragments of the Republican Roman Orators'. Her research centres on the Roman Republic, with a particular focus on political history and oratory. Among her recent publications are The End of the Roman Republic, 146-44 BC: Conquest and Crisis (Edinburgh UP, 2013) and, as editor, The Cambridge Companion to Cicero (Cambridge UP, 2013).