Highlight publications
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 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, Caesar the orator in retrospect. in TA Hass, R Raja & J Kindberg (eds), Caesar's Past and Posterity's Caesar. Brepols Publishers.
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, Leadership through letters: Cicero and Cassius' correspondence in 44-43 BC. in Taking the Lead in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome.
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
van der Blom, H 2017, How to make or break a public career in republican Rome through public speeches. in A-C Harders & M Haake (eds), Politische Kultur und soziale Struktur der Römischen Republik: Bilanzen und Perspektiven. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, pp. 325-334.
van der Blom, H 2017, Novitas between republic and empire. in C Tiersch & M Nebelin (eds), Semantische Kämpfe zwischen Republik und Prinzipat? Studien zu Kontinuität und Transformation der politischen und sozialen Sprache in Rom.
Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
van der Blom, H 2017, Homo novus/New man. in Oxford Bibliographies Online. Classics, Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780195389661-0277
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