Declamation, Paternity, and Roman Identity Hardback: Authority and the Rhetorical Self - Hardcover

'Erik Gunderson makes an eloquent case for taking declamation seriously, while letting us continue to wonder at the strangeness of this dark corner of Latin literature.' The Times Literary Supplement

'Gunderson has done Latin declamation and Rome culture historians a great service with this book'. Scholia Reviews

'This book suits its subject well. Gunderson's treatment will surely stimulate debate'. Anthony Corbeill, University of Kansas

Erik Gunderson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Greek and Latin at the Ohio State University. He is the author of Staging Masculinity: The Rhetoric of Performance in the Roman World (2000; ISBN 0472111396).