Cicero the Advocate

Jonathan Powell is Professor of Latin, Royal Holloway, University of London.Jeremy Paterson is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Review from previous edition 'Cicero the Advocate - he's back, he's bad, and he's taking names!' Or so the voice-over for the trailer would growl, if this surprisingly feisty volume were a summer blockbuster coming to a movie screen near you . . . Not quite a decade after his collection Cicero the Philosopher helped make 1995 a watershed in the re-evaluation of that portion of the oeuvre, Jonathan Powell has joined with Jeremy Paterson to produce a worthy successor. The standard maintained is uniformly high, and excellence is not uncommon. We can hope that Oxford will provide a paperback version sooner rather than later, at a price teachers and even their students can actually afford.

• Introduction ; I. THEMES ; 1. Legal Procedure in Cicero's Time ; 2. Self-Reference in Cicero's Forensic Speeches ; 3. A Volscian Mafia? Cicero and his Italian Clients in the Forensic Speeches ; 4. Allusion in Cicero's Narratives ; 5. Cicero and the Law ; 6. The Rhetoric of Character in the Roman Courts ; 7. Audience Expectations, Invective, and Proof ; 8. Cicero's Perorations ; II. CASE STUDIES ; 9. Being Economical with the Truth: What Really Happened at Lampsacus (Verrines II 1) ; 10. Repetition and Structure in a Civil Law Speech: The Pro Caecina ; 11. The Advocate as a Professional: The Role of the Patronus in Cicero's Pro Cluentio ; 12. Literature and Persuasion in Pro Archia ; 13. De Domo sua: Legal Problem and Structure ; 14. The Dilemma of Cicero's Speech for Ligarius ; EPILOGUE ; 15. Cicero and the Modern Advocate