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A study of the rhetorical and political strategy adopted by the Roman orator and statesman Cicero as a newcomer in Roman republican politics. Henriette van der Blom argues that Cicero advertised himself as a follower of chosen models of behaviour from the past - his role models - and in turn presented himself as a role model to others....

While the newspaper op-ed page, the Sunday morning political talk shows on        television, and the evening cable-news television lineup have an obvious and growing        influence in American politics and political communication, social scientists and        media scholars tend to be broadly critical of the rise of organized punditry...

An exploration of the enormous impact that the Persian Wars, fought in the fifth century BC, have had on Western ideas of history, liberty, resistance, and national identity. Sixteen internationally acclaimed classical scholars discuss treatments of these famous wars in art, theatre, philosophy, poetry, biography, and modern cinema and fiction....

CSR encompasses broad questions about the changing relationship between business, society, and government. This Handbook is an authoritative review of the academic research that has both prompted, and responded to, these issues. Bringing together leading experts, it provides clear thinking and new perspectives on CSR and the debates around it....

The Idea of Iambos is a long overdue study of the genre of Greek iambic poetry        from the perspective provided by ancient testimonies. Andrea Rotstein places        research on iambos in the framework of a new methodological approach to ancient        genres based on the cognitive sciences, offering an unprecedented study of...