dr. Charles Guérin
Charles Guérin is full professor of latin literature at Sorbonne University, Paris. His research focuses on the history of rhetorical doctrines, eloquence, pedagogy and forensic practices in late-Republican and early-Principate Rome. He is the author of two volumes on ancient rhetorical theory: Persona. L’élaboration d’une notion rhétorique au 1er siècle av. J.-C.: Antécédents grecs et première rhétorique latine (Vrin, 2009) and Persona. L’élaboration d’une notion rhétorique au 1er siècle av. J.-C.: Théorisation cicéronienne de la persona oratoire (Vrin, 2011). In 2015, he published a monograph on witnesses and testimony in Republican Rome, La Voix de la vérité. Témoin et témoignage dans les tribunaux romains du premier siècle avant J.-C. (Les Belles Lettres), which received the Georges Perrot prize, awarded by the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres. He has edited or co-edited 16 volumes on stylistics, ancient rhetoric, ancient philosophy, ancient history and declamation. Most recently, he co-edited Reading Roman Declamation: Seneca the Elder, Oxford UP, 2020, (with M. Dinter and M. Martinho), Cultural Memory in Republican and Augustan Rome, Cambridge UP, 2023 (with M. Dinter) and published a biography of Cicero aimed at a wide audience (Cicéron, un philosophe en politique, Calype, Paris, 2023)