Quintilian Institutio Oratoria

Name: Quintilian Institutio Oratoria
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ISBN: 9780199262656

ISBN-10: 0199262659

ISBN-13: 9780199262656

Edition: 2006

Authors: Tobias Reinhardt, Michael Winterbottom

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This volume is an edition, with a new Latin text and full commentary, of Book 2 of Quintilian's Education of the Orator. Education and the conceptualization of technical disciplines are now focal points of research into Graeco-Roman antiquity, and Quintilian's work is central to both areas. Following the treatment of elementary education in Book 1, Quintilian proceeds to the discussion of the second stage of instruction, provided by the teacher of rhetoric. He 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. The second half of the book is concerned with…

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List price: $225.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/24/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 488
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.892



Introduction


The Author and the Book


Defining Rhetoric


Note on the Text


Text


Commentary


Appendix: Parallel Passages in Sextus, Philodemus, and the Prolegomena