Erik Gunderson is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Staging Masculinity: The Rhetoric of Performance in the Roman World (2000); Declamation, Paternity and Roman Identity: Authority and the Rhetorical Self (2003); and Nox Philologiae: The Fantasy of the Roman Library (2008).

• Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction Erik Gunderson; Part I. An Archaeology of Rhetoric: 1. Fighting words: status, stature, and verbal contest in Archaic poetry Nancy Worman; 2. The philosophy of rhetoric and the rhetoric of philosophy Robert Wardy; 3. Codifications of rhetoric Malcolm Heath; Part II. The Field of Language: 4. Divisions of speech Catherine Steel; 5. Rhetoric, aesthetics, and the voice James Porter; 6. The rhetoric of rhetorical theory Erik Gunderson; 7. The politics of rhetorical education Joy Connolly; Part III. The Practice of Rhetoric: 8. Types of oratory Jon Hesk; 9. Rhetoric of the Athenian citizen Victoria Wohl; 10. Rhetoric and the Roman Republic John Dugan; 11. Staging rhetoric in Athens David Rosenbloom; 12. The drama of rhetoric at Rome William Batstone; 13. Rhetoric and the Second Sophistic Simon Goldhill; Part IV. Epilogues: 14. Rhetorical practice and performance in early Christianity Todd Penner and Caroline Vander Stichele; 15. Rediscoveries of Classical rhetoric Peter Mack; 16. The runaround: a volume retrospect on ancient rhetorics John Henderson; Appendix 1. Rhetorical terms; Appendix 2. Authors and prominent individuals; References; Index of passages; Index of subjects.

Erik Gunderson is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Staging Masculinity: The Rhetoric of Performance in the Roman World (2000); Declamation, Paternity and Roman Identity: Authority and the Rhetorical Self (2003); and Nox Philologiae: The Fantasy of the Roman Library (2008).

• Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction Erik Gunderson; Part I. An Archaeology of Rhetoric: 1. Fighting words: status, stature, and verbal contest in Archaic poetry Nancy Worman; 2. The philosophy of rhetoric and the rhetoric of philosophy Robert Wardy; 3. Codifications of rhetoric Malcolm Heath; Part II. The Field of Language: 4. Divisions of speech Catherine Steel; 5. Rhetoric, aesthetics, and the voice James Porter; 6. The rhetoric of rhetorical theory Erik Gunderson; 7. The politics of rhetorical education Joy Connolly; Part III. The Practice of Rhetoric: 8. Types of oratory Jon Hesk; 9. Rhetoric of the Athenian citizen Victoria Wohl; 10. Rhetoric and the Roman Republic John Dugan; 11. Staging rhetoric in Athens David Rosenbloom; 12. The drama of rhetoric at Rome William Batstone; 13. Rhetoric and the Second Sophistic Simon Goldhill; Part IV. Epilogues: 14. Rhetorical practice and performance in early Christianity Todd Penner and Caroline Vander Stichele; 15. Rediscoveries of Classical rhetoric Peter Mack; 16. The runaround: a volume retrospect on ancient rhetorics John Henderson; Appendix 1. Rhetorical terms; Appendix 2. Authors and prominent individuals; References; Index of passages; Index of subjects.

Erik Gunderson is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Staging Masculinity: The Rhetoric of Performance in the Roman World (2000); Declamation, Paternity and Roman Identity: Authority and the Rhetorical Self (2003); and Nox Philologiae: The Fantasy of the Roman Library (2008).

• Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction Erik Gunderson; Part I. An Archaeology of Rhetoric: 1. Fighting words: status, stature, and verbal contest in Archaic poetry Nancy Worman; 2. The philosophy of rhetoric and the rhetoric of philosophy Robert Wardy; 3. Codifications of rhetoric Malcolm Heath; Part II. The Field of Language: 4. Divisions of speech Catherine Steel; 5. Rhetoric, aesthetics, and the voice James Porter; 6. The rhetoric of rhetorical theory Erik Gunderson; 7. The politics of rhetorical education Joy Connolly; Part III. The Practice of Rhetoric: 8. Types of oratory Jon Hesk; 9. Rhetoric of the Athenian citizen Victoria Wohl; 10. Rhetoric and the Roman Republic John Dugan; 11. Staging rhetoric in Athens David Rosenbloom; 12. The drama of rhetoric at Rome William Batstone; 13. Rhetoric and the Second Sophistic Simon Goldhill; Part IV. Epilogues: 14. Rhetorical practice and performance in early Christianity Todd Penner and Caroline Vander Stichele; 15. Rediscoveries of Classical rhetoric Peter Mack; 16. The runaround: a volume retrospect on ancient rhetorics John Henderson; Appendix 1. Rhetorical terms; Appendix 2. Authors and prominent individuals; References; Index of passages; Index of subjects.