Christa Gray has been a Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading since January 2016 and was previously a Research Associate on the ERC-funded project 'Fragments of the Republican Roman Orators' at the University of Glasgow. She will be on research leave at the Humboldt University in Berlin until 2018 as a postdoctoral fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, working on an edition of Jerome's Vita Hilarionis.Andrea Balbo is a Lecturer at the University of Turin and also teaches Latin language and literature at the University of Italian Switzerland in Lugano. His research interests include Roman oratory and rhetoric, declamation, late antique Latin literature, digital humanities, and the reception of Classics in modern literatures. He is currently preparing, with Catherine Schneider, a critical edition of Calpurnius, and an edition for Teubner of the fragmentary oratory of the Imperial period.Richard Marshall is a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow and Research Associate on the ERC-funded project 'Fragments of the Republican Roman Orators'. His research interests include the Republican polymath Varro, the history of the book, and the transmission of classical literature. He is currently preparing a monograph on the reception of Varro in Late Antiquity.Catherine Steel is Professor of Classics at the University of Glasgow, where she is Principal Investigator on the ERC-funded project 'Fragments of the Republican Roman Orators'. Her research centres on the Roman Republic, with a particular focus on political history and oratory. Among her recent publications are The End of the Roman Republic, 146-44 BC: Conquest and Crisis (Edinburgh UP, 2013) and, as editor, The Cambridge Companion to Cicero (Cambridge UP, 2013).

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• Frontmatter List of Abbreviations List of Contributors 0: Introduction A: TRANSMISSION i. Republican Rome 1: Alexandra Eckert: Roman Orators between Greece and Rome: The Case of Cato the Elder, L. Crassus, and M. Antonius 2: Ian Goh: Republican Satire in the Dock: Forensic Rhetoric in Lucilius 3: Elena Torregaray Pagola: Plautus and the Tone of Roman Diplomacy of Intervention 4: Alfredo Casamento: The Eloquence of Publius Sulpicius Rufus and Gaius Aurelius Cotta in Cicero's Brutus ii. Imperial Rome 5: Amedeo Raschieri: The Fragments of Republican Orators in Quintilian's Institutio oratoria 6: S. J. Lawrence: Vis and Seruitus: The Dark Side of Republican Oratory in Valerius Maximus 7: Christopher Burden-Strevens: Reconstructing Republican Oratory in Cassius Dio's Roman History 8: John Dugan: Netting the Wolf-Fish: Gaius Titius in Macrobius and Cicero B: RECONSTRUCTION OF THE FRAGMENTS AND THEIR SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXTS i. Reconstructions in the Literal Sense 9: Alberto Cavarzere: Gaius Titius, Orator and Poeta. (Cic. Brut. 167 and Macrob. Sat. 3.16.4-16) 10: Anthony Corbeill: Clodius' Contio de haruspicum responsis 11: Kit Morrell: Certain gentlemen say . . .': Cicero, Cato, and the Debate on the Validity of Clodius' Laws ii. Oratorical Performance 12: Jennifer Hilder: The Politics of Pronuntiatio: The Rhetorica ad Herennium and Delivery in the Early First Century BC 13: Andrea Balbo: Traces of Actio in Fragmentary Roman Orators 14: Cristina Rosillo-López: I Said, He Said: Fragments of Informal Conversations and the Grey Zones of Public Speech in the Late Roman Republic iii. Gender in Fragmentary Oratory 15: Hans Beck: Of Fragments and Feelings: Roman Funeral Oratory Revisited 16: Cristina Pepe: Fragments of Epideictic Oratory: The Exemplary Case of the Laudatio Funebris for Women 17: Bill Gladhill: Women from the Rostra: Fulvia and the Pro Milone 18: Judith P. Hallett: Oratorum Romanarum Fragmenta Liberae Rei Publicae: The Letter of Cornelia, Mater Gracchorum, and the Speeches of her Father and Son Endmatter Bibliography Index