The Orator's Education, Volume I: Books 1-2 / Edition 1

by Quintilian

Overview

A central work in the history of rhetoric.

Quintilian, born in Spain about AD 35, 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 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 that are fully up to date in light of current scholarship and well tuned to today’s manner of expression. Russell also provides unusually rich explanatory notes, which enable full appreciation of this central work in the history of rhetoric.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674995918
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	01/10/2002
Series:	Loeb Classical Library , #124
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	4.25(w) x 6.38(h) x 1.00(d)
Language:	Latin

About the Author

Donald A. Russell, FBA (1920–2020) was Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature, University of Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford.

Table of Contents

Preface

General Introduction

Bibliography and Abbreviations

The Orator's Education

Book One

Introduction

Text and Translation

Book Two

Introduction

Text and Translation

Index of Proper Names