Joan Booth is Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Leiden University in The Netherlands. She was formerly Reader in Classics at the University of Wales, Swansea, and is author of A Commentary on Ovid, Amores II.

• Joan Booth (Leiden), Introduction: Man and Matter; J.G.F.Powell (Royal Holloway, London), Invective and the Orator: Ciceronian Theory and Practice; Robin Seager (Liverpool), Ciceronian Invective: Themes and Variations; Javier UrYa (Zaragoza), Semantics and Pragmatics of Ciceronian Invective; Keith Hopwood (Lampeter), Smear and Spin: Ciceronian Tactics in De Lege Agraria II; Catherine Steel (Glasgow), Name and Shame? Invective against Clodius and Others in the post-Exile Speeches; Byron Harries (Swansea), Acting the Part: Techniques of the Comic Stage in Cicero's Early Speeches; Ingo Gildenhard (Durham), Greek Auxiliaries: Tragedy and Philosophy in Ciceronian Invective; Rogier L.van der Wal (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam) 'What a Funny Consul we have!': Cicero's Dealings with Cato and Prominent Friends in Opposition.