Damian Pierzak is former Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. His main research interests are Roman oratory and Latin literature of the republican period.

• Aristotle’s views on exemplum – degrees of similarity between the ‘illustrans’ and ‘illustrandum’ – the reversed antonomasia – rhetorical theory and Cicero’s oratorical practice – the choice and meaning of foreign examples (exempla externa) in Cicero’s orations.

Damian Pierzak is former Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. His main research interests are Roman oratory and Latin literature of the republican period.

• Aristotle’s views on exemplum – degrees of similarity between the ‘illustrans’ and ‘illustrandum’ – the reversed antonomasia – rhetorical theory and Cicero’s oratorical practice – the choice and meaning of foreign examples (exempla externa) in Cicero’s orations.

Damian Pierzak is former Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. His main research interests are Roman oratory and Latin literature of the republican period.

• Aristotle’s views on exemplum – degrees of similarity between the ‘illustrans’ and ‘illustrandum’ – the reversed antonomasia – rhetorical theory and Cicero’s oratorical practice – the choice and meaning of foreign examples (exempla externa) in Cicero’s orations.