British classicist Usher argues that Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43) sought not only to convince his listeners of the rightness of the cases, but to display his range of other literary and
Universally recognised as the greatest speech by the finest of the Attic Orators, On the Crown is Demosthenes' vindication of his lifelong devotion to Athenian primacy among the Greek states and oppos
Dionysius of Halicarnassus had migrated to Rome by 30 BCE, where he lived until his death some time after 8 BCE, writing his Roman Antiquities and teaching the art of rhetoric and literary composition
