Quintilian Institutio Oratoria Book 2 (Hardcover, New)

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 Quintilian's theoretical conception of rhetoric. Rhetoric is seen as an "art," a technical discipline grounded in rules and organized like medicine or seafaring, and--less obviously--as a virtue. The section as a whole provides an argument for Quintilian's celebrated claim that the perfect orator is "a good man, skilled in speaking."

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2006
First published:	August 2006
Editors:	Tobias Reinhardt • Michael Winterbottom
Dimensions:	242 x 164 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	488
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-926265-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
LSN:	0-19-926265-9
Barcode:	9780199262656

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