Catherine Steel

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Name Catherine Steel

Books Roman Oratory, Cicero: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

Catherine Elizabeth Wannan Steel (born 31 May 1973) is professor of classics at the University of Glasgow. Steel's research interests relate to the Roman Republic, the writings of Cicero and Roman oratory.

She studied in Corpus Christi College, Oxford and was awarded the First Craven Scholarship in 1993, then the Chancellor's Prize for Latin Prose in 1994. She was elected to a Senior Scholarship in 1997.

in 2004, she participated in the BBC Radio 4 In Our Time episode on the Roman Republic. Her book Cicero, Rhetoric and Empire is held in 1062 libraries worldwide.

Selected publications

Community and Communication: Oratory and Politics in Republican Rome. Oxford University Press, 2013. (Edited with Henriette van der Blom) ISBN 9780199641895

The End of the Roman Republic, 146-44 B.C.: Conquest and Crisis. Series: Edinburgh history of Ancient Rome, 3. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, 2013. ISBN 9780748619443

Roman Oratory. Series: New surveys in the classics. Cambridge University Press, 2006. ISBN 0521687225

Reading Cicero: Genre and Performance in Late Republican Rome, 2005. Duckworth. ISBN 0715632795

Cicero, Rhetoric and Empire. Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 0199248478

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