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The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose - Pliny's Epistles/Quintilian in Brief (Hardcover)
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The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose - Pliny's Epistles/Quintilian in Brief (Hardcover)
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Imitation was central to Roman culture, and a staple of Latin
poetry. But it was also fundamental to prose. This book brings
together two monuments of the High Empire, Quintilian's Institutio
oratoria ('Training of the orator') and Pliny's Epistles, to reveal
a spectacular project of textual and ethical imitation. As a young
man Pliny had studied with Quintilian. In the Epistles he
meticulously transforms and subsumes his teacher's masterpiece,
together with poetry and prose ranging from Homer to Tacitus'
Dialogus de oratoribus. In teasing apart Pliny's rich intertextual
weave, this book reinterprets Quintilian through the eyes of one of
his sharpest readers, radically reassesses the Epistles as a work
of minute textual artistry, and makes a major intervention in
scholarly debates on intertextuality, imitation and rhetorical
culture at Rome. The result is a landmark study with far-reaching
implications for how we read Latin literature.
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