Joanna Kenty earned her PhD in Classical Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and subsequently held positions at the University of New Hampshire, Radboud University in the Netherlands, and Temple University's campus in Rome. Her research focuses on the confluence of literature, history and politics in the late Roman republic, and she has also published articles on classical receptions in the American Revolution, as well as continuities from ancient to modern American political rhetoric.
Introduction
1. The orator as attacker
2. The orator as friend
3. The orator as a martyr
4. The authority figure
5. The champion of the senate
6. The popular orator
7. The voice of a faction
8. A great man's spokesman
Conclusion.
