Catherine Steel

Catherine Elizabeth Wannan Steel (born 31 May 1973)^[1] is professor of classics at the University of Glasgow. Steel's research interests relate to the Roman Republic, the writings of Cicero and Roman oratory.^[2][3]

She studied in Corpus Christi College, Oxford and was awarded the First Craven Scholarship in 1993,^[4] then the Chancellor's Prize for Latin Prose in 1994.^[5] She was elected to a Senior Scholarship in 1997.^[6]

in 2004, she participated in the BBC Radio 4 In Our Time episode on the Roman Republic.^[7] Her book Cicero, Rhetoric and Empire is held in 1062 libraries worldwide.^[8]

Selected publications

• Community and Communication: Oratory and Politics in Republican Rome. Oxford University Press, 2013. (Edited with Henriette van der Blom) ISBN 9780199641895
• The End of the Roman Republic, 146-44 B.C.: Conquest and Crisis. Series: Edinburgh history of Ancient Rome, 3. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, 2013. ISBN 9780748619443
• Roman Oratory. Series: New surveys in the classics. Cambridge University Press, 2006. ISBN 0521687225
• Reading Cicero: Genre and Performance in Late Republican Rome, 2005. Duckworth. ISBN 0715632795
• Cicero, Rhetoric and Empire. Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 0199248478

References

1. Current Appointments Report for: THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF ROMAN STUDIES, London: Companies House, 2015, p. 8
2. "University of Glasgow :: Schools :: School of Humanities | Sgoil nan Daonnachdan :: Our staff :: Prof Catherine E Steel". gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-05-21.
3. Catherine Steel; Henriette van der Blom (2013). Community and Communication: Oratory and Politics in Republican Rome. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-964189-5.
4. "Oxford University Gazette" 124 (4305). ox.ac.uk. 4 November 1993. Retrieved 2015-05-22.
5. "Notices". ox.ac.uk. 2 June 1994. Retrieved 2015-05-22.
6. "Oxford University Gazette – Colleges, Halls, and Societies". ox.ac.uk. 17 July 1997. Retrieved 2015-05-22.
7. In Our Time Archive: History. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
8. "Steel, C. E. W. [WorldCat.org]". worldcat.org. Retrieved 2015-05-22.