Cicero the advocate

"This is the first book in English to take Cicero's forensic speeches seriously as acts of advocacy, i.e. as designed to ensure that the person he represents in acquitted or that the person he is prosecuting is found guilty. It seeks to set the speeches within the context of the court system of the Late Roman Republic and to explore in detail the strategies available to Roman advocates to win the votes of jurors. The volume comprises a substantial introduction, fourteen chapters by prominent Ciceronian scholars in Britain, North America, and Germany, and a final chapter by a current British Appeal Court judge who comments on Cicero's techniques from the point of view of a modern advocate."--BOOK JACKET.

Introduction / Jonathan Powell and Jeremy Paterson -- Legal procedure in Cicero's time / Andrew Lintott -- Self-reference in Cicero's forensic speeches / Jeremy Paterson -- A Volscian mafia? : Cicero and his Italian clients in the forensic speeches / Kathryn Lomas -- Reading Cicero's narratives / D.S. Levene -- Cicero and the law / Jill Harries -- The rhetoric of character in the Roman courts / Andrew M. Riggsby -- Audience expectations, invective, and proof / Christopher Craig -- Perorations / Michael Winterbottom -- Being economical with the truth : what really happened at Lampsacus? / Catherine Steel -- Repetition and unity in a civil law speech : the Pro Caecina / Lynn Fotheringham -- The advocate as a professional : the role of the patronus in Cicero's Pro Cluentio / Christopher Burnand -- Literature and persuasion in Cicero's Pro Archia / D.H. Berry -- De domo sua : legal problem and structure / Wilfried Stroh -- The dilemma of Cicero's speech for Ligarius / Jeffrey P. Johnson -- Epilogue : Cicero and the modern advocate / John Laws -- Appendix: Chronological list of Cicero's known appearances as an advocate.