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