This book explores the interplay of form and function in both real and fictional oratory at Rome.

An innovative, literary approach to historical accounts of politics, this book reveals the wide-ranging significance of Roman republican magistracy.

Well-known as a brilliant general and politician, Caesar also played a fundamental role in the formation of the Latin literary language and history of Latin Lit

This volume brings together a distinguished international group of researchers to explore public speech in Republican Rome in its institutional and ideological

Helps students and instructors read and appreciate this extraordinary piece of historical writing about Nero's infamous reign as emperor.