Joan Booth (Leiden), Introduction: Man and Matter; J.G.F.Powell (Royal Holloway, London), Invective and the Orator: Ciceronian Theory and Practice; Robin Seager (Liverpool), Ciceronian Invective: Themes and Variations; Javier UrYa (Zaragoza), Semantics and Pragmatics of Ciceronian Invective; Keith Hopwood (Lampeter), Smear and Spin: Ciceronian Tactics in De Lege Agraria II; Catherine Steel (Glasgow), Name and Shame? Invective against Clodius and Others in the post-Exile Speeches; Byron Harries (Swansea), Acting the Part: Techniques of the Comic Stage in Cicero's Early Speeches; Ingo Gildenhard (Durham), Greek Auxiliaries: Tragedy and Philosophy in Ciceronian Invective; Rogier L.van der Wal (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam) 'What a Funny Consul we have!': Cicero's Dealings with Cato and Prominent Friends in Opposition.