Quintilian: The Orator's Education Books 3-5 - Couverture rigide

Quintilian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674995929 ISBN 13 : 9780674995925

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 2002

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674995929
• ISBN 13: 9780674995925
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 560
• Coordonnées du fabricant: MORGAN WALLEN; www.amazon.com; ; 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg