Explores the crucial role played by rhetorical education in turning Cicero into a literary and political symbol after his death.

Presents the first full-length, systematic study of the reception of Cicero's speeches in the Roman educational system.

Cicero was one of the most important political, intellectual, and literary figures of the late Roman Republic, rising to the consulship as a 'new man' and leadi

A comprehensive and authoritative account of one of the greatest and most prolific writers of classical antiquity.