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