A Companion to Roman Rhetoric introduces the reader to the
wide-ranging importance of rhetoric in Roman culture.
* A guide to Roman rhetoric from its origins to the Renaissance
and beyond
* Comprises 32 original essays by leading international
scholars
* Explores major figures Cicero and Quintilian in-depth
* Covers a broad range of topics such as rhetoric and politics,
gender, status, self-identity, education, and literature
* Provides suggestions for further reading at the end of each
chapter
* Includes a glossary of technical terms and an index of proper
names and rhetorical concepts
Table of Content
Contents
Notes on Contributors viii
Preface xii
Texts and Abbreviations xiv
Part I Approaching Rhetoric 1
1 Confronting Roman Rhetoric 3
William Dominik and Jon Hall
2 Modern Critical Approaches to Roman Rhetoric 9
John Dugan
3 Greek Rhetoric Meets Rome: Expansion, Resistance, and Acculturation 23
Sarah Culpepper Stroup
4 Native Roman Rhetoric: Plautus and Terence 38
John Barsby
5 Roman Oratory Before Cicero: The Elder Cato and Gaius Gracchus 54
Enrica Sciarrino
Part II Rhetoric and Its Social Context 67
6 Rhetorical Education and Social Reproduction in the Republic and Early Empire 69
Anthony Corbeill
7 Virile Tongues: Rhetoric and Masculinity 83
Joy Connolly
8 Oratory, Rhetoric, and Politics in the Republic 98
Michael C. Alexander
9 Oratory and Politics in the Empire 109
Steven H. Rutledge
10 Roman Senatorial Oratory 122
John T. Ramsey
11 Panegyric 136
Roger Rees
12 Roman Oratorical Invective 149
Valentina Arena
Part III Systematizing Rhetoric 161
13 Roman Rhetorical Handbooks 163
Robert N. Gaines
14 Elocutio: Latin Prose Style 181
Roderich Kirchner
15 Memory and the Roman Orator 195
Jocelyn Penny Small
16 Wit and Humor in Roman Rhetoric 207
Edwin Rabbie
17 Oratorical Delivery and the Emotions: Theory and Practice 218
Jon Hall
Part IV Rhetoricians and Orators 235
18 Lost Orators of Rome 237
Catherine Steel
19 Cicero as Rhetorician 250
James M. May
20 Cicero as Orator 264
Christopher P. Craig
21 Grammarians and Rhetoricians 285
Charles Mc Nelis
22 Roman Declamation: The Elder Seneca and Quintilian 297
W. Martin Bloomer
23 Quintilian as Rhetorician and Teacher 307
Jorge Ferna´ndez Lo´pez
24 Tacitus and Pliny on Oratory 323
William Dominik
25 Rhetoric and the Second Sophistic 339
Graham Anderson
26 Roman Rhetoric and Its Afterlife 354
John O. Ward
Part V Rhetoric and Roman Literature 367
27 Rhetoric and Literature at Rome 369
Matthew Fox
28 Rhetoric and Epic: Vergil’s Aeneid and Lucan’s Bellum Civile 382
Emanuele Narducci
29 Rhetoric and Satire: Horace, Persius, and Juvenal 396
Dan Hooley
30 Rhetoric and Ovid 413
Ulrike Auhagen
31 Rhetoric and the Younger Seneca 425
Marcus Wilson
32 Rhetoric and Historiography 439
Cynthia Damon
Bibliography 451
Glossary of Technical Terms 487
Index Locorum 495
General Index 502
About the author
William Dominik is Professor of Classics at the University
of Otago. He is a contributor to A Companion to Ancient Epic
(2005) and A Companion to the Classical Tradition (2006). He
has also published numerous books, chapters, and articles on Roman
literature and other topics.
Jon Hall is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of
Otago. He is the author of numerous articles and chapters on
Cicero’s oratory and rhetorical treatises. He has also
completed a book on Cicero’s correspondence.
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