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James J. Murphy, professor emeritus of English and rhetoric and communication at the University of California, Davis, is the author or editor of nineteen books, including Quintilian on the Teaching of Writing and Speaking and The Debater’s Guide, both published by Southern Illinois University Press. He was one of the founders of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, and the founding editor of its journal , Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric. He was also the publisher of Hermagoras Press (1983–1995); Hermagoras Press is now an imprint of Routledge publishers. Carole Newlands is a professor of classics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and author of Playing with Time: Ovid and the Fasti and Statius’ Silvae and the Poetics of Empire. ...

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