Catherine Steel

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] She received her PhD from Oxford in 1999.^[7]

Steel was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 2022.^[8][9]

In 2004, she participated in the BBC Radio 4 In Our Time episode on the Roman Republic.^[10] She participated in a further episode of In Our Time, in January 2018, on Cicero.^[11] Her book Cicero, Rhetoric and Empire is held in 1062 libraries worldwide.^[12]

Selected publications

• 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

• University of Glasgow profile page