Table of Contents
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xvii
Section I The Strange World of Education in the Roman Empire 1
1 Education in the Roman Empire 3
2 The Social and Historical Significance of Rhetorical Education 14
Section II Killing Julius Caesar as the Tyrant of Rhetoric 27
3 The Carrion Men 29
4 Puzzles about the Conspiracy 37
5 Who Was Thinking Rhetorically? 51
Section III Rhetoric's Curious Children: Building in the Cities of the Roman Empire 65
6 Monumental Nymphaea 67
7 City Walls, Colonnaded Streets, and the Rhetorical Calculus of Civic Merit 88
Section IV Lizarding, and Other Adventures in Declamation and Roman Law 107
8 Rhetoric and Roman Law 111
9 The Attractions of Declamatory Law 119
10 Legal Puzzles, Familiar Laws, and Laws of Rhetoric Rejected by Roman Law 132
Conclusion: Rhetoric, Maker of Worlds 148
Notes 157
Abbreviations of Some Modern Works 229
Works Cited 231
Index 287