Cicero, Rhetoric, and Empire [Hardcover]

This study of Cicero's political oratory and Roman imperialism in the late Republic offers new readings of neglected speeches. C.E.W. Steel examines the role and capacities of political oratory and puts Cicero's attitude to empire, with its limitations and weaknesses, in the context of wider debates among his contemporaries on the problems of empire.

Introduction
1. Romans in the provinces: power, autonomy, and identity
2. How to become a Roman: the cases of Archias and Balbus
3. Controlling the uncontrollable: Cicero and the generals
4. Portrait of the orator as a great man: Cicero on Cicero
5. Imperial contexts
Epilogue: the limits of oratory

Essential reading for serious students of Cicero the man and of Ciceronian persuasion. --Religious Studies Review

C.E.W. Steel is Lecturer in Classics, University of Glasgow