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Catherine Elizabeth Wannan Steel, FBA (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.

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

Steel was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 2022.

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

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

References

1. Current Appointments Report for: THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF ROMAN STUDIES, London: Companies House, 2015, p. 8
2. "University of Glasgow :: Schools :: School of Humanities | Sgoil nan Daonnachdan :: Our staff :: Prof Catherine E Steel". gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
3. Catherine Steel; Henriette van der Blom (2013). Community and Communication: Oratory and Politics in Republican Rome. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-964189-5.
4. "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)
5. "Notices". ox.ac.uk. 2 June 1994. Archived from the original on 28 April 2013. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
6. "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)
7. "Record number of women elected to the British Academy". The British Academy. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
8. "Professor Catherine Steel FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
9. "The Roman Republic". In Our Time (30 December 2004). BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
10. "Cicero, In Our Time - BBC Radio 4". BBC. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
11. "Steel, C. E. W. [WorldCat.org]". worldcat.org. Retrieved 22 May 2015.

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