Catherine Steel Explained

Catherine Elizabeth Wannan Steel, (born 31 May 1973) 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.^{[1] [2]}

She studied in Corpus Christi College, Oxford and was awarded the First Craven scholarship in 1993,^[3] and then the Chancellor's Prize for Latin Prose in 1994.^[4] She was elected to a Senior Scholarship in 1997.^[5]

Steel was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 2022.^{[6] [7]}

In 2004, she participated in the BBC Radio 4 In Our Time episode on the Roman Republic.^[8] She participated in a further episode of In Our Time, in January 2018, on Cicero.^[9] Her book Cicero, Rhetoric and Empire is held in 1062 libraries worldwide.^[10]

Selected publications

• Community and Communication: Oratory and Politics in Republican Rome. Oxford University Press, 2013. (Edited with Henriette van der Blom)
• 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.
• Roman Oratory. Series: New surveys in the classics. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• Reading Cicero: Genre and Performance in Late Republican Rome, 2005. Duckworth.
• Cicero, Rhetoric and Empire. Oxford University Press, 2002.

External links

• University of Glasgow profile page

Notes and References

1. Web site: University of Glasgow :: Schools :: School of Humanities | Sgoil nan Daonnachdan :: Our staff :: Prof Catherine E Steel. gla.ac.uk. 2015-05-21.
2. Book: Catherine Steel. Henriette van der Blom. Community and Communication: Oratory and Politics in Republican Rome. 2013. OUP Oxford. 978-0-19-964189-5.
3. Oxford University Gazette. 4 November 1993. 4305. 124. ox.ac.uk. 2015-05-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20150616080531/http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/9394/041193. 16 June 2015. dead.
4. Web site: Notices. 2 June 1994. 4329. 124. ox.ac.uk. 2015-05-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20130428001014/http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/9394/020694/notc.txt. 28 April 2013. dead.
5. Oxford University Gazette – Colleges, Halls, and Societies. 17 July 1997. ox.ac.uk. 2015-05-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20130427234333/http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/1996-7/weekly/170797/coll.htm. 27 April 2013. dead.
6. Web site: Record number of women elected to the British Academy . 2022-07-22 . The British Academy . en.
7. Web site: Professor Catherine Steel FBA . 2022-07-22 . The British Academy . en.
8. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004y26w "The Roman Republic"
9. Web site: Cicero, In Our Time - BBC Radio 4. BBC. en-GB. 2018-02-09.
10. Web site: Steel, C. E. W. [WorldCat.org]]. worldcat.org. 2015-05-22.