Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface xi
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. Section I The Strange World of Education in the Roman Empire
6. 1 Education in the Roman Empire 3
7. 2 The Social and Historical Significance of Rhetorical Education 14
8. Section II Killing Julius Caesar as the Tyrant of Rhetoric
9. 3 The Carrion Men 29
10. 4 Puzzles about the Conspiracy 37
11. 5 Who Was Thinking Rhetorically? 51
12. Section III Rhetoric’s Curious Children: Building in the Cities of the Roman Empire
13. 6 Monumental Nymphaea 67
14. 7 City Walls, Colonnaded Streets, and the Rhetorical Calculus of Civic Merit 88
15. Section IV Lizarding, and Other Adventures in Declamation and Roman Law 107
16. 8 Rhetoric and Roman Law 111
17. 9 The Attractions of Declamatory Law 119
18. 10 Legal Puzzles, Familiar Laws, and Laws of Rhetoric Rejected by Roman Law 132
19. Conclusion rhetoric, maker of worlds 148
20. Notes 157
21. Abbreviations of some modern works 229
22. Works cited 231
23. Index 287