Companion to Roman Rhetoric

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.

• Notes on Contributors viiiPreface xiiTexts and Abbreviations xivPart I Approaching Rhetoric 11 Confronting Roman Rhetoric 3William Dominik and Jon Hall2 Modern Critical Approaches to Roman Rhetoric 9John Dugan3 Greek Rhetoric Meets Rome: Expansion, Resistance, and Acculturation 23Sarah Culpepper Stroup4 Native Roman Rhetoric: Plautus and Terence 38John Barsby5 Roman Oratory Before Cicero: The Elder Cato and Gaius Gracchus 54Enrica SciarrinoPart II Rhetoric and Its Social Context 676 Rhetorical Education and Social Reproduction in the Republic and Early Empire 69Anthony Corbeill7 Virile Tongues: Rhetoric and Masculinity 83Joy Connolly8 Oratory, Rhetoric, and Politics in the Republic 98Michael C. Alexander9 Oratory and Politics in the Empire 109Steven H. Rutledge10 Roman Senatorial Oratory 122John T. Ramsey11 Panegyric 136Roger Rees12 Roman Oratorical Invective 149Valentina ArenaPart III Systematizing Rhetoric 16113 Roman Rhetorical Handbooks 163Robert N. Gaines14 Elocutio: Latin Prose Style 181Roderich Kirchner15 Memory and the Roman Orator 195Jocelyn Penny Small16 Wit and Humor in Roman Rhetoric 207Edwin Rabbie17 Oratorical Delivery and the Emotions: Theory and Practice 218Jon HallPart IV Rhetoricians and Orators 23518 Lost Orators of Rome 237Catherine Steel19 Cicero as Rhetorician 250James M. May20 Cicero as Orator 264Christopher P. Craig21 Grammarians and Rhetoricians 285Charles McNelis22 Roman Declamation: The Elder Seneca and Quintilian 297W. Martin Bloomer23 Quintilian as Rhetorician and Teacher 307Jorge Fernández López24 Tacitus and Pliny on Oratory 323William Dominik25 Rhetoric and the Second Sophistic 339Graham Anderson26 Roman Rhetoric and Its Afterlife 354John O. WardPart V Rhetoric and Roman Literature 36727 Rhetoric and Literature at Rome 369Matthew Fox28 Rhetoric and Epic: Vergil’s Aeneid and Lucan’s Bellum Civile 382Emanuele Narducci29 Rhetoric and Satire: Horace, Persius, and Juvenal 396Dan Hooley30 Rhetoric and Ovid 413Ulrike Auhagen31 Rhetoric and the Younger Seneca 425Marcus Wilson32 Rhetoric and Historiography 439Cynthia DamonBibliography 451Glossary of Technical Terms 487Index Locorum 495General Index 502

"Dominik and Hall have produced a solid, well-structured and accessible piece of work, which not only provides an excellent starting point to newcomers, but also contains a number of original contributions that will be of interest to more advanced scholars." (Scholia Reviews, June 2010) “This Blackwell Companion successfully communicates the efflorescence of Roman rhetorical practices and the centrality of rhetoric in Roman thought.” (Classical World, June 2009) "The historical and generic range of these 32 scholarly essays strikingly reflects how rhetoric pervaded Roman literature… .Students at all levels will benefit from reading these essays." (Classical Review. 2008)“Students at all levels will benefit from reading these essays, both for their intrinsic scholarship and for the guidance they give, through copious bibliographical reference, towards further research…an important contribution to Blackwell’s catalogue of classical titles.” (The Classical Review, Vol 58 No. 1 2008)“Dominik and Hall's [book] will be welcomed by those seeking capable introductions to the areas it treats. Through an array of open-minded contributions [it] usefully introduces the main scholarly issues in Roman rhetoric and oratory, outlining how far the field has come and the opportunities and complications that lie ahead.” (Bryn Mawr Classical Review)“A significant major contribution that adds further prestige to a very major series.” (Reference Reviews)"A short review cannot begin to do justice to the immense range of material covered here … This excellent Companion will tell most readers all they need to know about Roman rhetoric." (Journal of Classics Teaching)“This welcome addition … fills a void long empty in classical scholarship … .Every library, if not every Classics department, should own a copy.” (New England Classical Journal)