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Brian Krostenko

Professor

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Office
243 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Email
bkrosten@nd.edu

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Biography

Krostenko’s research centers on the culture and law of the Late Roman Republic, Cicero, rhetoric, and Latin linguistics. He is the author of Cicero, Catullus, and the Language of Social Performance (Chicago, 2001), which discusses the problem of aestheticism in Roman culture by means of historical semantics. He is also the author of The Voices of the Consul: The Rhetorics of Cicero's de lege agraria I and II (Oxford, 2024), the first book-length study of the rhetoric of those speeches, which uses the techniques of discourse analysis to reveal how and why Cicero lays claim to contested political slogans and ideologies in the turbulent late Republic.

Frequently Teaches

Latin Survey I ("From Ennius to Egeria"), The History of Latin, Latin Prose Composition, The Theory and Practice of Greco-Roman Rhetoric

Research Interests

Late Roman Republic, Latin Linguistics, Cicero, Rhetoric

Representative Publications

The Voices of the Consul: the Rhetorics of Cicero’s de lege agraria I and II (Oxford University Press, 2023).
“Three Kinds of Ambiguity: Rhetoric and Christian Citizenship in the Martyr Act of Cyprian,” Wiener Studien, Zeitschrift für klassische Philologie und Patristik  131 (2018) 149–78.
“The Poetics of Naevius’ ‘Epitaph’ and the History of Latin Poetry,” Journal of Roman Studies 104 (2013) 1–19.
“Arbitria Elegantiae : Language, Style, and Characterization in Catullus c. 39 and 37,”  Classical Antiquity 20.2 (2001) 239–72.

Education

Ph.D., Harvard, 1993
A.B., Princeton, 1986

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