Quintilian, born in Spain about 35 CE, became a widely known and
highly successful teacher of rhetoric in Rome. "The Orator's
Education" ("Institutio Oratoria"), a comprehensive training
program in twelve books, draws on his own rich experience. It is a
work of enduring importance, not only for its insights on oratory,
but for the picture it paints of education and social attitudes in
the Roman world.
Quintilian offers both general and specific advice. He gives
guidelines for proper schooling (beginning with the young boy);
analyzes the structure of speeches; recommends devices that will
engage listeners and appeal to their emotions; reviews a wide range
of Greek and Latin authors of use to the orator; and counsels on
memory, delivery, and gestures.
Donald Russell's new five-volume Loeb Classical Library edition
of "The Orator's Education," which replaces an eighty-year-old
translation by H. E. Butler, provides a text and facing translation
fully up to date in light of current scholarship and well tuned to
today's taste. Russell also provides unusually rich explanatory
notes, which enable full appreciation of this central work in the
history of rhetoric.
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