Rhetoric was fundamental to education and to cultural aspiration in the Greek and Roman worlds. It was one of the key aspects of antiquity that slipped under th

This is a collection of specially commissioned essays exploring the interface between words and images in the Roman world.

"Rhetoric was fundamental to education and to cultural aspiration in the Greek and Roman worlds. It was one of the key aspects of antiquity that slipped under t

Political image-making—especially from the Age of Augustus, when the Roman Republic evolved into a system capable of governing a vast, culturally diverse empi

Presents a coherent model for understanding historical examples in Ancient Rome and their rhetorical, moral and historiographical functions.