Contents -- Law and Ethics in Greek and Roman Declamation: Current Perspectives, Future Directions -- Law in Declamation: The status legales in Senecan controversiae -- Shared Speech in the Collection of the Elder Seneca (Contr. 10.4): Towards a Study of Common Literary Passages as Community Interaction -- Forensic Intrusion into the Schools of Rhetoric: A Reading of Cassius Severus' Attack on Cestius Pius -- Ambiguous Silence: stuprum and pudicitia in Latin Declamation -- Quaedam iura non lege, sed natura: Nature and Natural Law in Roman Declamation -- Parricidii sit actio: Killing the Father in Roman Declamation -- Cases of Poisoning in Greek and Roman Declamation -- Truth by Force? Torture as Evidence in Ancient Rhetoric and Roman Law -- The Law in the Major Declamations Ascribed to Quintilian -- Tyrants and Tyrannicides: Between Literary Creation and Contemporary Reality in Greek Declamation -- Nature over Law: Themes of Disowning in Libanius' Declamations -- Demosthenes' Moral and Legal Arguments in Libanius' Declamations -- Two Laws, Two Loves: Generational Conflict Between a Father and His Son in Choricius' Declamations 5 and 6 -- Contributors -- Index of Ancient Names -- Index of Modern Names -- General Index.