Table of Contents

Jonathan Powell and Jeremy Paterson: Introduction
I. Themes
1: Andrew Lintott: Legal Procedure in Cicero's Time
2: Jeremy Paterson: Self-Reference in Cicero's Forensic Speeches
3: Kathryn Lomas: A Volscian Mafia? Cicero and his Italian Clients in the Forensic Speeches
4: David Levene: Allusion in Cicero's Narratives
5: Jill Harries: Cicero and the Law
6: Andrew Riggsby: The Rhetoric of Character in the Roman Courts
7: Christopher Craig: Audience Expectations, Invective, and Proof
8: Michael Winterbottom: Cicero's Perorations
II. Case Studies
9: Catherine Steel: Being Economical with the Truth: What Really Happened at Lampsacus (Verrines II 1)
10: Lynn Fotheringham: Repetition and Structure in a Civil Law Speech: The Pro Caecina
11: Christopher Burnand: The Advocate as a Professional: The Role of the Patronus in Cicero's Pro Cluentio
12: Dominic Berry: Literature and Persuasion in Pro Archia
13: Wilfried Stroh: De Domo sua: Legal Problem and Structure
14: Jeff Johnson: The Dilemma of Cicero's Speech for Ligarius
Epilogue
15: John Laws: Cicero and the Modern Advocate

About the Author

Jonathan Powell is Professor of Latin, Royal Holloway, University of London. Jeremy Paterson is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Reviews

Oxford has done an admirable job in giving us an attractive, error-free volume, one that should certainly grace the bookshelves of all those interested in Ciceronian oratory. James M May, The Classical Review This is the first book in English to take Cicero's forensic speeches seriously as acts of advocacy Centro Internazionale Promozione Editoriale