Institutes of Oratory

Name: Institutes of Oratory
ISBN: 9788472993839

Quintilian

384 pages · about 6 hours
First published 1515
58 editions

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1 About this book

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.

Rhetoric
Oratory
Ancient Rhetoric
Ancient Oratory
Style
Speeches
Education

2 About Quintilian

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Latin:; c. 35 – c. 100 AD) was a Roman educator and rhetorician born in Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing. In English translation, he is usually referred to as Quintilian ( kwin-TIL-ee-ən), although the alternate spellings of Quintillian and Quinctilian are occasionally seen, the latter in older texts.

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