A Companion to Roman Rhetoric

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, andAcculturation 23 Sarah Culpepper Stroup 4 Native Roman Rhetoric: Plautus and Terence 38 John Barsby 5 Roman Oratory Before Cicero: The Elder Cato and Gaius Gracchus54 Enrica Sciarrino Part II Rhetoric and Its Social Context 67 6 Rhetorical Education and Social Reproduction in the Republicand 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 Practice218 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 McNelis 22 Roman Declamation: The Elder Seneca and Quintilian 297 W. Martin Bloomer 23 Quintilian as Rhetorician and Teacher 307 Jorge Fernández López 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'sBellum 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