Nancy Worman is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Barnard College and Columbia University, New York, USA. She is the author of articles and books on style, performance, and the body in Greek literature and culture. Her most recent book is Landscape and the Spaces of Metaphor in Ancient Literary Theory and Criticism (2015).

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Introduction
1. The mouth and its uses in Homer, iambos, and tragedy
2. Open mouths and abusive talk in Aristophanes
3. Gluttonous speechifying in Euripides' Cyclops
4. Crude talk and fancy fare in Plato
5. Defamation and oral excess in Demosthenes and Aeschines
6. The intemperate mouth in Aristotle and Theophrastus
Epilogue.

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