Catherine Elizabeth Wannan Steel, FBA (born 31 May 1973)[1] is a British classical scholar. She is Professor of Classics at the University of Glasgow. Steel is an expert on 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] and then the Chancellor's Prize for Latin Prose in 1994.[5] She was elected to a Senior Scholarship in 1997.[6]
Steel was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 2022.[7][8]
In 2004, she participated in the BBC Radio 4 In Our Time episode on the Roman Republic.[9] She participated in a further episode of In Our Time, in January 2018, on Cicero.[10] Her book Cicero, Rhetoric and Empire is held in 1062 libraries worldwide.[11]
Selected publications
edit- Community and Communication: Oratory and Politics in Republican Rome. Oxford University Press, 2013. (Edited with Henriette van der Blom) ISBN 9780199641895
- The Cambridge Companion to Cicero (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013)
- 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
External links
editReferences
edit- ^ Current Appointments Report for: THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF ROMAN STUDIES, London: Companies House, 2015, p. 8
- ^ "University of Glasgow :: Schools :: School of Humanities | Sgoil nan Daonnachdan :: Our staff :: Prof Catherine E Steel". gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
- ^ Catherine Steel; Henriette van der Blom (2013). Community and Communication: Oratory and Politics in Republican Rome. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-964189-5.
- ^ "Oxford University Gazette". 124 (4305). ox.ac.uk. 4 November 1993. Archived from the original on 16 June 2015. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "Notices". ox.ac.uk. 2 June 1994. Archived from the original on 28 April 2013. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
- ^ "Oxford University Gazette – Colleges, Halls, and Societies". ox.ac.uk. 17 July 1997. Archived from the original on 27 April 2013. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "Record number of women elected to the British Academy". The British Academy. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
- ^ "Professor Catherine Steel FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
- ^ "The Roman Republic". In Our Time (30 December 2004). BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
- ^ "Cicero, In Our Time - BBC Radio 4". BBC. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
- ^ "Steel, C. E. W. [WorldCat.org]". worldcat.org. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
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