Introduction: "All minds quote". Fragmentation
Identifying the fragment
Cicero and the poets. The mirror of poetry
Cicero and the Latin poets
Cicero and the Greek poets
Latin translations of Greek poets
Memory vs. the book
Poetic citation by Ciceronian genre. Poetry and philosophy
Poetry and oratory
Poetry in the speeches. Pro Roscio Amerino (80 BCE)
Pro Murena (63 BCE)
Pro Sestio (56 BCE)
Pro Caelio (56 BCE)
Poetry in the letters
A funny thing happened...
Postcards from home
Threading connections
Roman comedy and scholarship. The Roman scholar
Looking outside the canon
A grammar lesson
"Beyond the second step"
Singing in Cicero. Tragic cantica in the Tusculan disputations
Pacuvius' Niptra
The unknown tragedy
Ennius' Andromacha
Poetry as artefact
Researching the past
"Without Lucilius we wouldn't know ..."
Lusit in Persona
History and historicity
Poetic authority
Envoi
Note to appendices
Appendix I: By Ciceronian work
Appendix II: By Latin poet
Appendix III: By Greek poet.