Catherine Elizabeth Wannan Steel, FBA (born 31 May 1973)[1] is a British classical scholar.
[2][3] She studied in Corpus Christi College, Oxford and was awarded the First Craven scholarship in 1993,[4] and then the Chancellor's Prize for Latin Prose in 1994.
[6] Steel was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 2022.
[7][8] In 2004, she participated in the BBC Radio 4 In Our Time episode on the Roman Republic.
[10] Her book Cicero, Rhetoric and Empire is held in 1062 libraries worldwide.