By Jonathan Hall
While Cicero’s Use of Judicial Theater will be of curiosity basically to expert students and scholars learning the speeches of Cicero, its wider analyses, either one of Roman cultural customs and the idiosyncratic practices of the courts, will end up proper additionally to social historians, in addition to historians of felony procedure.
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