Abstract
Roger Ascham's dialogue Toxophilus is a book made of books. Ascham himself indicated the importance of classical sources to his ‘schole of shootinge’ by providing an apparatus of marginal references in Toxophilus. In its substance his dialogue of expert knowledge envisioned the old learning, drawing upon its forms in a new imaginative style. It is remarkable that for his use and conception of classical learning Ascham always had a model. He admired the great teachers Cheke and Sturm, and his writing abounds in judgments and appreciations of other classical scholars of his time. But his model for his relation to the literary past was Cicero. I do not mean Cicero the master orator but Cicero the student of the ancient Greeks.
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