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van der Blom, H 2010, Cicero’s Role Models: The Political Strategy of a Newcomer. Oxford University Press.
van der Blom, H 2016, Oratory and Political Career in the Late Roman Republic. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107280281
van der Blom, H & Steel, C (eds) 2013, Community and Communication: Oratory and Politics in Republican Rome. Oxford University Press.
van der Blom, H 2020, The reception of Octavian’s oratory and public communication in the imperial period. in F Pina Polo (ed.), The Triumviral Period: Civil War, Political Crisis and Socioeconomic Transformations. Libera Res Publica, Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, pp. 249-79.
van der Blom, H 2017, Caesar's Orations. in L Grillo & C Krebs (eds), The Cambridge Companion to the Writings of Julius Caesar. Cambridge University Press, pp. 193-205. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139151160.014
Recent publications
Book
Baines, J (ed.), van der Blom, H, Rood, T (ed.) & Chen, S (ed.) 2019, Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World. Equinox Publishing. <https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/historical-consciousness/>
van der Blom, H, Gray, C & Steel, C (eds) 2018, Institutions and Ideology in Republican Rome: Speech, Audience and Decision. Cambridge University Press.
Chapter (peer-reviewed)
van der Blom, H 2023, The alternative story: Contemporary invective responses to Cicero. in P Geitner, D Pausch, C Schwameis & R Wierzcholowski (eds), Ciceronian Invectives: Emotions, Configurations, and Reactions. Mohr Siebeck, pp. 125-79.
van der Blom, H 2022, Leadership through letters: Cicero and Cassius' correspondence in 44-43 BC. in RM Frolov & C Burden-Strevens (eds), Leadership and Initiative in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome. Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity, vol. 453, Brill, pp. 271–294. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004511408_011
van der Blom, H 2022, Quintilian on Cicero's deliberative oratory. in F Romana Berno & G La Bua (eds), Portraying Cicero in Literature, Culture, and Politics: From Ancient to Modern Times. CICERO, vol. 4, De Gruyter, pp. 247-266. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110748703-015
van der Blom, H 2021, Caesar the orator in retrospect. in TA Hass & R Raja (eds), Caesar's Past and Posterity's Caesar. Brepols Publishers, pp. 95-110. <http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503591308-1>
van der Blom, H 2021, Novitas between republic and empire. in M Nebelin & C Tiersch (eds), Semantische Kämpfe zwischen Republik und Prinzipat?: Kontinuität und Transformation der politischen Sprache in Rom. 1 edn, Historische Semantik, vol. 31, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pp. 457-478. <https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entdecken/altertumswissenschaft/alte-geschichte/52638/semantische-kaempfe-zwischen-republik-und-prinzipat>
van der Blom, H 2020, Bildung durch exempla: Ciceros Gebrauch von Vorbildern in der römischen Bildungskultur. in P Kuhlmann & V Marchetti (eds), Cicero im Rahmen der römischen Bildungskultur. Mohr Siebeck.
van der Blom, H 2020, Cæsar og Cicero i Rom: politik, retorik og litteratur. in TA Hass & S Saxkjær Grove (eds), Cæsar: Manden og myten. Aarhus University Press.
van der Blom, H 2020, Res publica, libertas and free speech in retrospect: Republican oratory in Tacitus’ Dialogus. in C Balmaceda (ed.), Libertas and Res Publica in the Roman Republic. Brill, pp. 216-37.
van der Blom, H 2019, Bellum civile in Cicero: terminology and self-fashioning. in The Historiography of Late Republican Civil War. Brill, Leiden, Netherlands, pp. 111-136. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004409521_007
van der Blom, H 2019, Roman republican history in imperial rhetorical exercises. in J Baines, S Chen, H van der Blom & T Rood (eds), Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World. Equinox Publishing, pp. 359-375. https://doi.org/10.1558/equinox.33740
van der Blom, H 2017, Ciceronian constructions of the oratorical past. in K Sandberg & C Smith (eds), Omnium Annalium Monumenta: Historical Writing and Historical Evidence in Republican Rome. Historiography of Rome and its Empire, vol. 2, Brill, Leiden, pp. 234-56. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004355552_011
van der Blom, H 2017, Cicero’s self-presentation as a homo novus. in E-M Becker & J Mortensen (eds), Paul as homo novus: Strategies of self-fashioning – Applying or inverting a Ciceronian term. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, pp. 39-53.
van der Blom, H 2017, Elite rhetoric and self-presentation: Metellus Numidicus returns. in A Serafim, B da Vela & S Papaioannou (eds), A Theatre of Justice: Aspects of performance in Greco-Roman oratory and rhetoric. Brill, Leiden & Boston, pp. 114-129. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004341876_009
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