Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Note on Texts and Abbreviations; Introduction; An Orientation; Scope and Structure; 1 Pro Milone: Reading Cicero in the Schoolroom; The Miloniana Commentary Tradition: Sources; Pro Milone: Background to the Speech and Outline; Quintilian on How to Read a Speech; Themes and Methods of Instruction; The Introductory praelectio; Exordium; Dispelling praeiudicia; Narratio; Argumentatio; Peroratio; Conclusion; 2 Eloquence (Dis)embodied: The Textualization of Cicero; A Modern Syncrisis; The Declamatory Classroom

Cicero as Model of EloquenceCicero and the Decline of Eloquence; The Ancient Syncrisis: Cicero and Demosthenes; Conclusion; 3 Remaking Cicero in the Schoolroom: Cicero's Death; Popillius the Parricide; Propaganda and Declamation; The Death of Cicero: Declaimers Writing History; The Death of Cicero: Historians Writing Declamation; The Death of Cicero: Livy et al.; Greek Historians on Cicero's Death; 4 Pro Cicerone/In Ciceronem: How to Criticize Cicero; Pseudepigraphic Sources; Consul and nouus homo; Exile; The "Philippics" of Appian and Dio; Coda: The Intertextual Declamatory Aesthetic

5 Seneca the Younger and CiceroDeclamatory Ciceronian Presences; Philosophical Ciceronian Absences; Senecan Form and Function; Senecan Educational Theory; Conclusion; 6 Tacitus: Dialogus de Cicerone?; Quintilian; Dialogus de oratoribus: Authorship, Date, and Lacuna; Dialogus de oratoribus: Structure and Characters; Cicero in the Dialogus: Formal Elements; Cicero as Leitmotif; Conclusion; 7 Est . . . mihi cum Cicerone aemulatio: Pliny's Cicero; Genre and Plinian Artistry; Cicero in the Epistulae; Echoes of Ciceronian Letters in the Epistulae; Conclusion; Epilogue: The Early Empire and Beyond

Works CitedGeneral Index; Index Locorum