Declamations of Calpurnius Flaccus Text, Translation, and Commentary

The excerpts from the "Declamations of Calpurnius Flaccus (2nd century A.D.) are one of our major sources of knowledge concerning "controversiae, model court speeches on fictitious themes. These formed the focus of Roman higher education and therefore had an enormous effect on Latin literary style and content from the late Republic on. They also contain important indirect evidence for contemporary social history. This book provides a general introduction to the work, a new Latin text, plus the first English translation and only full modern commentary. The latter discusses the legal background and origins of the cases, points at issue, textual problems, and matters of Latin style. The volume will therefore be of interest to students of classical rhetoric, education, history, and philology.Sussman, Lewis A. is the author of 'Declamations of Calpurnius Flaccus Text, Translation, and Commentary' with ISBN 9789004099838 and ISBN 9004099832.