dr. Charles Guérin

Full professor of Latin at Sorbonne University, Paris
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)

Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7563-644X

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