Abstract

1. Cicero at Fifty 2. The Public Careers of L. Licinius Crassus and M. Antonius 3. Constructing the Dialogue: The Challenge of Plato 4. The Future Orator: Talent, Training, and the Choice of Model 5. The Orator and the Law 6. Oratory and Literature: The Spoken and the Written Word 7. Rediscovering Aristotelian Invention 8. Wit and Humour as the Orator's Combat Weapons 9. Political Persuasion: Senate and Contio 10. Style and Substance 11. Res Pervolgatae: Words and their Manipulation in Standard Rhetorical Theory 12. Into Action: The Orator as Public Figure 13. Epilogue: The Statesman and the State in De Oratore and After

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