Michael Winterbottom (Corpus Christi Pro Antonio Stramaglia (Professor of Latin, Francesca Romana Nocchi (University of
Declamation - the practice of training young men to speak in public by setting them to compose and deliver speeches on fictional legal cases - was central to the Greek and Roman educational systems over many centuries and has been the subject of a recent explosion of scholarly interest. The work of Michael Winterbottom has been seminal in this regard, and the present volume brings together a broad selection of his scholarly articles and reviews published since 1964, creating an authoritative and accessible resource for this burgeoning field of study. The assembled papers focus on two...
Declamation - the practice of training young men to speak in public by setting them to compose and deliver speeches on fictional legal cases - was cen...