Reading Roman Declamation

Martin T. Dinter is Senior Lecturer in Latin Language and Literature at King's College London. He is the author of Anatomizing Civil War: Studies in Lucan's Epic Technique (University of Michigan Press, 2013) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy (CUP, 2019), as well as the co-editor of A Companion to the Neronian Age (with Emma Buckley; Wiley-Blackwell, 2013) and two other volumes on Roman declamation: Reading Roman Declamation: The Declamations Ascribed to Quintilian (with Charles Guérin and Marcos Martinho; De Gruyter, 2016) and Reading Roman Declamation: Calpurnius Flaccus (with Charles Guérin and Marcos Martinho; De Gruyter, 2017). He has also written articles on Roman drama, Roman epic, and epigram, and is currently working on a book on Cato the Elder. Charles Guérin is Professor of Latin Literature at Sorbonne Université, Paris. He has published monographs on the rhetorical notion of persona (J. Vrin, 2009; J. Vrin, 2011) and on witness testimony in the Roman courts of the first century BC (La Voix de la vérité; 2015), and has also edited and co-edited several volumes on ancient rhetoric, oratory, declamation, and literature. A former junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France, he is a member of the council of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (2018-2021) and the executive committee of L'Année Philologique. Marcos Martinho dos Santos is Associate Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He is a specialist in ancient rhetoric and in addition has published extensively on ancient grammarians and mythographers. He also serves on the editorial boards of nine Classics related journals and has edited and co-edited six volumes on Roman declamation, Cicero, and Greek mythology. He is currently preparing a book length study on Hyginus.