Michael C. Alexander is Professor in the Department of History at the University of Illinois, Chicago, USA. His research has focused on the history of the late Roman republic, particularly criminal trials. He is the author of Trials in the Late Roman Republic, 149 bc to 50 bc (1990) and The Case for the Prosecution in the Ciceronian Era (2002).
Graham Anderson is Professor of Classics at the University of Kent, England. He has written several studies on later Greek rhetoric, including Philos-tratus (1986), The Pepaideumenos in Action (1989), and The Second Sophistic (1993). He is currently preparing a study of kingship legends in antiquity.
Valentina Arena is Lecturer in Roman History at University College, London, England. Her main fields of research are the use of ideas in the political arena and the practice of politics in the first century BCE. She is currently working on a book on the concept of libertas and its exploitation in the late Roman republic.
Ulrike Auhagen teaches Classics in the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Her publications include Der Monolog bei Ovid (1999) as well as various articles on Greek and Roman comedy, Roman republican tragedy, Roman epic and elegy, and neo-Latin literature. She is the editor of Studien zu Plautus’ Epidi-cus (2001) and (with Eckart Schafer) Lotichius und die romische Elegie (2001).
John Barsby is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He has published widely on Latin literature, including articles on Catullus, Propertius, and Ovid as well as on Plautus and Terence. He has published Ovid (1978), Ovid, Amores I (1973), Plautus, Bacchides (1986), Terence, Eunuchus (1999), Terence 1-2
(2001), and Greek and Roman Drama: Translation and Performance (2002).
W. Martin Bloomer is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Notre Dame, USA. His publications include
Valerius Maximus and the Rhetoric of the New Nobility (1992), Latinity and Literary Society at Rome (1997), and The School ofRome: Latin Studies and the Origins of Liberal Education (forthcoming).
Joy Connolly is Assistant Professor of Classics at New York University, USA. Her interests include political theory, especially citizenship and empire; ancient education; Roman poetry; and feminist theory. She is the author of The State of Speech: Rhetoric and the Foundations of Political Thought in Ancient Rome (2007) and is working on a book about republicanism entitled Talk about Virtue.
Anthony Corbeill is Professor of Classics at the University of Kansas, USA. He is the author of Controlling Laughter: Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic (1996), Nature Embodied: Gesture in Ancient Rome (2004), and various articles on Roman rhetoric, gesture, and views of the body. He is currently researching the ways in which Romans conceived of the boundaries between biological sex and socially constructed gender.
Christopher P. Craig is Professor of Classics at the University of Tennessee, USA. His studies of Cicero include a book on Form as Argument in Cicero’s Speeches (1993) as well as articles and book chapters on individual speeches and general characteristics of Ciceronian oratory. An example of his recent work is ‘‘Audience Expectations, Invective, and Proof’’ in Cicero the Advocate (edited by Jonathan Powell and Jeremy Paterson, 2004).
Cynthia Damon is a Professor of Classics at Amherst College, USA and served as editor of Transactions of the American Philological Association from 2001 to 2005. She has written on parasites, patronage, and Latin prose style. Historiography and rhetoric figure prominently in her commentary on Tacitus, Histories 1
(2002) and in her monograph (with William Batstone) entitled Caesar’s Civil War (2006).
William Dominik, Professor of Classics at the University of Otago, New Zealand, is a contributor to The Blackwell Companion to Epic (2005) and The Blackwell Companion to the Classical Tradition (2006). He has published numerous books, including Roman Eloquence: Rhetoric in Society and Literature (1997). He is also the author of numerous chapters and articles on Roman literature and other topics and is the founding editor of Scholia.
John Dugan is Associate Professor of Classics at the University at Buffalo, USA. He is the author of Making a New Man: Ciceronian Self-Fashioning in the Rhetorical Works (2005). Among his other publications are articles that investigate intertextuality between Catullus and Cicero and the interaction between ancient medicine and literary theory.
Jorge Fernandez L<Spez is Professor of Latin Philology at the University of La Rioja, Spain. He has published Retorica, humanismo y filologta: Quintiliano y Lorenzo Valla (1999) and articles on Quintilian and Spanish renaissance rhetoric.
Matthew Fox is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Birmingham, England. He has published Roman Historical Myths (1996) and is currently working on a study of history in Cicero’s philosophical writings. He has also published on historiography, rhetoric, Latin poetry, and gender.
Robert N. Gaines is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. His publications include ‘‘Cicero, Philode-mus, and the Development of Late Hellenistic Rhetorical Theory’’ in Philodemus and the New Testament World (2004) and ‘‘Cicero and Philodemus on Models of Rhetorical Expression’’ in Les Polemiques philosophiques a Rome vers la fin de la Republique: Ciceron et Philodeme (2001).
Jon Hall is Senior Lecturer in the Classics Department at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He has recently completed a book on the correspondence of Cicero and has published numerous articles on his oratory and rhetorical treatises.
Dan Hooley is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Missouri, USA. He is the author of The Classics in Paraphrase: Ezra Pound and Modern Translators of Latin Poetry (1988), The Knotted Thong: Structures of Mimesis in Persius (1997), and Roman Satire (2006). He has also published articles on Roman poetry, the classical reception in European literature, and translation studies and is the editor of Classical and Modern Literature.
Roderich Kirchner is Lecturer in Latin and Greek at Friedrich-Schiller University, Germany. He is the author of Sen-tenzen im Werk des Tacitus (2001).
James M. May is Professor of Classics at St Olaf College, USA. He is the author of numerous articles and papers on Cicero, ancient oratory and rhetoric, and classical pedagogy. His books include Trials of Character: The Eloquence of Ciceronian Ethos (1988), (with Jakob Wisse) Cicero: On the Ideal Orator (2001), and Brill’s Companion to Cicero: Oratory and Rhetoric (2002).
Charles McNelis is an Assistant Professor of Classics at Georgetown University,
USA. He is the author of Statius’ Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War (2007) and is currently working on a commentary on Statius’ Achilleid for Cambridge University Press. In addition to his work on Roman poetry, he has written articles on the intellectual life of ancient Rome during the early empire and late antiquity.
Emanuele Narducci is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Florence, Italy. In addition to numerous articles on classical authors and on the tradition of classical scholarship, he is the author or editor of numerous books, including Lucano: Un’epica con-tro l’impero (2002), Lagallina Cicerone: Carlo Emilio Gadda egli scrittori antichi
(2003), Cicerone e i suoi interpreti: Studi sull’opera e la Fortuna (2004), and Intro-duzione a Cicerone (2005).
Edwin Rabbie was a researcher at the Constantijn Huygens Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences from 1985 to 1998 and is presently a judge in the District Court of the Hague. He contributed the section on oratorical humor to M. Tullius Cicero, De Oratore Libri III: Kommentar (1981-96) and has edited neo-Latin works by Erasmus and Grotius. He is currently working on editions of G. J. Vossius’ Poeticae Institutiones and of Erasmus’ polemics.
John T. Ramsey is Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois, Chicago, USA. He is the author of four books and numerous articles and reviews. His specialty is Roman history and Latin prose. He has published (with A. Lewis Licht) an interdisciplinary study of Caesar’s comet entitled The Comet of 44 bc and Caesar’s Funeral Games (1997). His most recent book is a commentary on Cicero, Philippics I-II (2003).
Roger Rees is Reader in Latin at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He is the author of Layers of Loyalty in Latin Panegyric ad 289-305 (2002) and is the editor of Romane Memento: Vergil in the Fourth Century (2004). He has written various articles on Latin prose and poetry and is currently working on a monograph on praise discourse in Roman society.
Steven H. Rutledge is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He is author of Imperial Inquisitions: Prosecutors and Informants from Tiberius to Domitian (2001) and has written articles on the subjects of Tacitus and Roman rhetoric.
Enrica Sciarrino is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She has published on the elder Cato’s Origines and early Roman poetry. She is currently working on a book with the working title The Invention of Latin Prose: From Poetic Translations to Elite Transcripts.
Jocelyn Penny Small is Professor in Art History at Rutgers University, USA. She has written five books, of which the most recent are Wax Tablets of the Mind (1997) and The Parallel Worlds of Classical Art and Text (2003). Her numerous articles are on a wide range of subjects, including iconography, Etruscan art, memory in antiquity, and database design. She is currently working on optics and illusionism in classical art.
Catherine Steel is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. She is the author of Cicero, Rhetoric and Empire (2001) and Reading Cicero: Genre and Performance in Late Republican Rome (2005).
Sarah Culpepper Stroup is Assistant Professor in Classics at the University of Washington, USA. Her research focuses on Cicero’s technica and the textual culture of the late republic and early empire. She is the author of articles on Cicero’s Brutus, Martial’s Xenia and Apophoreta, and the triumph in the construction of Roman civic memory. She has just completed a book on the sociopolitics of the text in the late republic.
John O. Ward is an Honorary Research Associate in the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia, where he taught for 35 years. His major publication in this field is Ciceronian Rhetoric in Treatise, Scholion, and Commentary (1995). His other publications are in the areas of medieval historiography, heresy, and witchcraft.
Marcus Wilson is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Auckland. He has published many articles on Seneca and Silius Itali-cus and edited The Tragedy of Nero’s Wife: Studies on the Octavia Praetexta (2003). He is currently the editor of Prudentia.
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