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Creative Eloquence: the construction of reality in Cicero's speeches

The monograph, consisting of 12 chapters and 4 substantial introductions, is the outcome of ten years of research on Cicero’s speeches (and his oeuvre more generally), with particularly intense work towards the end (2007–2010). The argument is grounded in wide interdisciplinary reading in cultural studies and social theory and aims to rethink an extensive corpus of primary material. Bringing out the conceptual coherence and creativity that underwrites and pervades Cicero’s oratory involved close reading and analysis not just of his surviving 50+ speeches, but also his philosophical works, and comparative material by other Greek and Roman authors.