Quintilian
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M. Fabii Quintiliani Institutionis oratoriae libri duodecim
Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
M. Fabii Quintiliani institutionis oratoriae libri duodecim ad fidem codicum manu scriptorum
M. Fabii Quintiliani De institutione oratoria libri duodecim
Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
The orator's education
Quintilian, born in Spain about 35 CE, became a renowned and successful teacher of rhetoric in Rome. In The Orator's Education (Institutio Oratoria), a comprehensive training program in twelve books, he draws on his own rich experience. It provides not only insights on oratory, but also a picture of Roman education and social attitudes.
The lesser declamations
The Lesser Declamations perhaps date from the second century CE and are perhaps derived from Quintilian. The collection originally consisted of 388 sample cases for legal training. 145 survive. Comments and suggestions the instructor adds to his model speeches for fictitious court cases offer insight into Roman law and education.
Institutiones Oratoriae
With Latin text and a commentary, this is an edition of Book 2 of Quintilian's 'Education of the Orator'. It gives important insights into the way teaching was conducted in a rhetorical school in Rome in the first century AD, and discusses the various elementary rhetorical exercises, one by one.