Lintott...is impressively at home with the whole of Cicero's writing and has a sharp eye for some interesting and evocative passages. He is particularly good at unravelling the niceties of senatorial debate ... Cicero As Evidence offers important lessons for anyone working on the history and culture of the ancient world

• I. READING CICERO ; 1. Reading Events ; 2. The Texts of the Speeches ; 3. Truth and Fiction ; II. READING ORATORY ; 4. Cicero's Forensic Baptism: The Pro Quinctio ; 5. More Problems of Partnership: The Pro Quinto Roscio Comoedo ; 6. Property and Violence: The Pro Tullio and Pro Caecina ; 7. The Citadel of the Allies ; 8. The Defence of Good Men: The Other Side of the Quaestio de Repetundis ; 9. Treason and Other Crimes against the Roman People ; III. HISTORY IN SPEECHES AND LETTERS ; 10. Candidature and Consulship ; 11. The Aftermath of the Consulship ; 12. The Gang of Three and Clodius ; 13. After the Return ; IV. HISTORY AND IDEAS ; 14. The Search for Otium ; 15. The Governor and the Approach of Civil War ; 16. The Mediator and the Partisans ; 17. Living with Dictatorship ; 18. The Ides of March and After ; 19. Answering the Republic's Call ; 20. Epilogue

Lintott...is impressively at home with the whole of Cicero's writing and has a sharp eye for some interesting and evocative passages. He is particularly good at unravelling the niceties of senatorial debate ... Cicero As Evidence offers important lessons for anyone working on the history and culture of the ancient world

• I. READING CICERO ; 1. Reading Events ; 2. The Texts of the Speeches ; 3. Truth and Fiction ; II. READING ORATORY ; 4. Cicero's Forensic Baptism: The Pro Quinctio ; 5. More Problems of Partnership: The Pro Quinto Roscio Comoedo ; 6. Property and Violence: The Pro Tullio and Pro Caecina ; 7. The Citadel of the Allies ; 8. The Defence of Good Men: The Other Side of the Quaestio de Repetundis ; 9. Treason and Other Crimes against the Roman People ; III. HISTORY IN SPEECHES AND LETTERS ; 10. Candidature and Consulship ; 11. The Aftermath of the Consulship ; 12. The Gang of Three and Clodius ; 13. After the Return ; IV. HISTORY AND IDEAS ; 14. The Search for Otium ; 15. The Governor and the Approach of Civil War ; 16. The Mediator and the Partisans ; 17. Living with Dictatorship ; 18. The Ides of March and After ; 19. Answering the Republic's Call ; 20. Epilogue