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The Major Declamations, Volume III (Hardcover)
Quintilian; Edited by Antonio Stramaglia; Translated by Michael Winterbottom; Notes by Biagio Santorelli, Michael Winterbottom
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R769
Discovery Miles 7 690
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The Major Declamations stand out for their unique contribution to
our understanding of the final stage in Greco-Roman rhetorical
training. These exercises, in which students learned how to compose
and deliver speeches on behalf of either the prosecution or the
defense at imaginary trials, demonstrate how standard themes,
recurring situations and arguments, and technical rules were to be
handled by the aspiring orator. And what is more, they lay bare the
mistakes that students often made in this process. The practice of
declamation was already flourishing in Greece as early as the fifth
century BC, but nearly all of its vast tradition has disappeared
except the present anthology, whose nineteen declamations are
almost the only substantial examples surviving from pre-medieval
Latinity. They seem to represent that tradition reasonably well:
although attributed to the great master Quintilian in antiquity,
internal features indicate multiple authorship from around AD 100
to the mid- or late third century, when the collection was
assembled. A wide variety of fascinating ethical, social, and legal
details animates the fictional world conjured up by these
oratorical exercises, and although the themes of declamation can be
unrealistic and even absurd (often reminiscent of ancient novel and
tragedy), they seem to provide a safe space in which a student
could confront a range of complex issues, so as to attain both the
technical knowledge necessary to speak persuasively and the soft
skills needed to manage the challenges of adult life under the
Roman empire.
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The Major Declamations, Volume II (Hardcover)
Quintilian; Edited by Antonio Stramaglia; Translated by Michael Winterbottom; Notes by Biagio Santorelli, Michael Winterbottom
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R764
Discovery Miles 7 640
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The Major Declamations stand out for their unique contribution to
our understanding of the final stage in Greco-Roman rhetorical
training. These exercises, in which students learned how to compose
and deliver speeches on behalf of either the prosecution or the
defense at imaginary trials, demonstrate how standard themes,
recurring situations and arguments, and technical rules were to be
handled by the aspiring orator. And what is more, they lay bare the
mistakes that students often made in this process. The practice of
declamation was already flourishing in Greece as early as the fifth
century BC, but nearly all of its vast tradition has disappeared
except the present anthology, whose nineteen declamations are
almost the only substantial examples surviving from pre-medieval
Latinity. They seem to represent that tradition reasonably well:
although attributed to the great master Quintilian in antiquity,
internal features indicate multiple authorship from around AD 100
to the mid- or late third century, when the collection was
assembled. A wide variety of fascinating ethical, social, and legal
details animates the fictional world conjured up by these
oratorical exercises, and although the themes of declamation can be
unrealistic and even absurd (often reminiscent of ancient novel and
tragedy), they seem to provide a safe space in which a student
could confront a range of complex issues, so as to attain both the
technical knowledge necessary to speak persuasively and the soft
skills needed to manage the challenges of adult life under the
Roman empire.
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The Major Declamations, Volume I (Hardcover)
Quintilian; Edited by Antonio Stramaglia; Translated by Michael Winterbottom; Notes by Biagio Santorelli, Michael Winterbottom
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R768
Discovery Miles 7 680
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The Major Declamations stand out for their unique contribution to
our understanding of the final stage in Greco-Roman rhetorical
training. These exercises, in which students learned how to compose
and deliver speeches on behalf of either the prosecution or the
defense at imaginary trials, demonstrate how standard themes,
recurring situations and arguments, and technical rules were to be
handled by the aspiring orator. And what is more, they lay bare the
mistakes that students often made in this process. The practice of
declamation was already flourishing in Greece as early as the fifth
century BC, but nearly all of its vast tradition has disappeared
except the present anthology, whose nineteen declamations are
almost the only substantial examples surviving from pre-medieval
Latinity. They seem to represent that tradition reasonably well:
although attributed to the great master Quintilian in antiquity,
internal features indicate multiple authorship from around AD 100
to the mid- or late third century, when the collection was
assembled. A wide variety of fascinating ethical, social, and legal
details animates the fictional world conjured up by these
oratorical exercises, and although the themes of declamation can be
unrealistic and even absurd (often reminiscent of ancient novel and
tragedy), they seem to provide a safe space in which a student
could confront a range of complex issues, so as to attain both the
technical knowledge necessary to speak persuasively and the soft
skills needed to manage the challenges of adult life under the
Roman empire.
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.
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.
"The Lesser Declamations," dating perhaps from the second century
CE and attributed to Quintilian, might more accurately be described
as emanating from "the school of Quintilian." The collection--here
made available for the first time in translation--represents
classroom materials for budding Roman lawyers.
The instructor who composed these specimen speeches for
fictitious court cases adds his comments and suggestions concerning
presentation and arguing tactics--thereby giving us insight into
Roman law and education. A wide range of scenarios is imagined.
Some evoke the plots of ancient novels and comedies: pirates,
exiles, parents and children in conflict, adulterers, rapists, and
wicked stepmothers abound. Other cases deal with such matters as
warfare between neighboring cities, smuggling, historical (and
quasi-historical) events, tyrants and tyrannicides. Two gems are
the speech opposing a proposal to equalize wealth, and the case of
a Cynic youth who has forsworn worldly goods but sues his father
for cutting off his allowance.
Of the original 388 sample cases in the collection, 145
survive. These are now added to the Loeb Classical Library in a
two-volume edition, a fluent translation by D. R. Shackleton Bailey
facing an updated Latin text.
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.
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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