Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

xiv, 353 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-328) and indexes.

Form and function / D. H. Berry and Andrew Erskine -- Court procedure and rhetorical strategy in Cicero / J. G. F. Powell -- Tribunician sacrosanctity and oratorical performance in the late republic / Catherine Steel -- Togate statues and petrified orators / Glenys Davies -- Means and ends of Indignatio in Cicero's Pro Roscio Amerino / Christopher Craig -- Form as global strategy in Cicero's Second Catilinarian / Andrew M. Riggsby -- The form and function of narrative in panegyric / Roger Rees -- Unending praise: Pliny and ending panegyric / Bruce Gibson -- The function of a divinely inspired text in Cicero's De harvspicvm responsis / Anthony Corbeill -- Debate at a distance: a unique rhetorical strategy in Cicero's Thirteenth Philippic / John T. Ramsey -- The function of verse quotations in Apuleius' speeches: making the case with Plato Regine May -- Teaching philosophy, a form or function of Roman oratory: Velleius' speech in Cicero's De Natvra Deorvm / Carl Joachim Classen -- Form and function of speech in the prose work of the younger Seneca / Harry Hine -- Catiline's speeches in Sallust's Bellvm Catilinae / William W. Batstone -- Speech and silence in Caesar's Bellvm Gallicvm / Christina Shuttleworth Kraus -- Rhetorical history: the struggle of the orders in Livy / Christopher Smith -- Oratory in Tacitus' Annals / Roland Mayer -- Aliena Facvndia: Seneca in Tacitus / A. J. Woodman.

Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin -- History and criticism.

Oratory, Ancient.

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- Criticism and interpretation.

Berry, D. H.

Erskine, Andrew.

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