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Quintilian Institutio Oratoria Book 2 (Hardcover, New)
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Quintilian Institutio Oratoria Book 2 (Hardcover, New)
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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
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."
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