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The volume focuses on the evidence of scenic art present in
Quintilian s Institutio oratoria to verify its influence on the
education of the speaker. The enquiry will also make reference to
all Greek and Latin sources useful in highlighting the mutual
dependence between oratory and theater from the fifth century B.C.
to the second century A.D."
Declamation - the practice of training young men to speak in public
by setting them to compose and deliver speeches on fictional legal
cases - was central to the Greek and Roman educational systems over
many centuries and has been the subject of a recent explosion of
scholarly interest. The work of Michael Winterbottom has been
seminal in this regard, and the present volume brings together a
broad selection of his scholarly articles and reviews published
since 1964, creating an authoritative and accessible resource for
this burgeoning field of study. The assembled papers focus on two
related topics: the rhetorician Quintilian and ancient declamation
in practice. Quintilian, who taught rhetoric at Rome in the second
half of the first century AD, was the author of the Institutio
Oratoria, a key text for Roman educational practice, rhetoric, and
literary criticism. Subjects explored in the present collection
range widely over not only the establishment and interpretation of
the text and its literary and historical context, but also
Quintilian's views on inspiration, morality, philosophy, and
declamation, of which he was a practitioner. While the volume also
offers detailed examinations of the texts and interpretations of a
wide range of Latin and Greek authors of declamations, such as
Seneca the Elder, Sopatros, and Ennodius, there is a particular
focus on two collections wrongly attributed to Quintilian, the
so-called 'Minor' and 'Major Declamations'. A major re-assessment
of the manuscript tradition of the latter collection is published
here for the first time.
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