A City of Marble: The Rhetoric of Augustan Rome

Acknowledgments

ACknOwLEdgMEnTs I would like to thank my teachers: Susan Stevens and James Hoban (RandolphMacon Woman’s College); James Russell and the faculty at the Duke Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies 2000–2001; Cara Finnegan, Thomas Conley, and Ned O’Gorman (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); and most of all Debra Hawhee (Penn State University), who has been constantly supportive of my research and professional development above and beyond the call of duty. Members of my graduate school cohort and writing group at the University of Illinois supported me in more ways than I can say and for which I am truly grateful. I would also like to thank my colleagues at Arizona State University in rhetoric and composition, the Department of English, and those who integrate a love of classics and archaeology into their work regardless of home department, especially those who have mentored me as I have settled into my first faculty position. Finally I would like to thank all of my students, particularly those students (and a remarkable colleague), who braved my first graduate seminar on classical rhetoric at ASU and let me try out some of the arguments in this book. Many early drafts of the chapters were presented at conventions for the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) and the National Communication Association (NCA). Portions of chapters 2 and 3 appeared in essay form in Philosophy and Rhetoric and Rhetoric Society Quarterly, respectively. I would like to thank the (anonymous) reviewers, readers, and audience members who provided feedback in these venues. The American Society for the History of Rhetoric (ASHR) continues to strive to provide invaluable opportunities for research and networking at summer institutes, symposia, and panels coupled with NCA and RSA, many of which aided the development of this book. The efforts of Dave Tell, Ekaterina Haskins, Ned O’Gorman, Susan Jarratt, and Michele Kennerly, among many others who devote their time to ASHR, are greatly appreciated. The Department of English at Arizona State University funded research travel to Italy allowing me to study, move around, and photograph many of the rhetorical artifacts discussed in the following chapters. Daria Lanzuolo at the German Archaeological Institute—Rome (DAI-R), Marina Milella at the Museo xvi Acknowledgments dei Fori Imperiali, Lauren Hackworth Petersen and Stephen Petersen (University of Delaware), and Tara Carleton Weaver aided in supplying many of the images for the book. Brent Chappelow provided developmental editing. Richard Leo Enos and an anonymous reviewer for the University of South Carolina Press provided valuable feedback for revision. Remaining errors are mine and mine alone. Finally, I would like to thank my family, especially my husband, Christopher Freundt, and my parents, Lloyd and Kay Lamp, for the love and support necessary to sustain me through this process. While this book is the product of my formal education, I hope always to be a student of classical rhetoric. ...