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Institutionis Oratoriae: Volume I: Books I-VI. (Oxford Classical Texts)
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Training of an Orator: Volume IV. Books 10-12 (Loeb Classical Library)
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Quintilian was born in Spain about <FONT SIZE="-1">A.D.</FONT> 35; he became a well-known and prosperous teacher of rhetoric in Rome, probably the first to receive a salary as such from public funds. His Institutio Oratoria (Training of an Orator), a comprehensive training program in twelve books, draws on his own rich experience. Here Quintilian gives guidelines for proper schooling (beginning with the young boy); analyzes the structure of speeches and recommends devices for engaging listeners and appealing to their emotions; reviews a wide range of Greek and Latin authors of use to the orator; and counsels on memory, delivery, and gestures. This practical guide, in lucid style, provides valuable insight on Roman education. The work also yields many a memorable comment on the styles of various writers.
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Quintilian: The Orator's Education, IV, Books 9-10 (Loeb Classical Library No. 127)
Quintilian , and Donald A. Russell
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Quintilian, born in Spain about <FONT SIZE="-1">A.D.</FONT> 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. </p>
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. </p>
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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The New Translation.......2007-03-09
Russell's translation of Quintilian's Institution Oratoria (published in 2001) replaces Butler's edition, which was published in 1921. The translation, overall, is excellent, as we would expect from someone with Russell's credentials, but the question that most readers should ask is this: Is it better? Some will answer affirmatively owing to the fact that they (or their students) find Russell's translation easier to read: The language is generally more contemporarily colloquial, especially in terms of structure. Others will suggest that his translation is not better than Butler's, just different. Indeed, the reason classical works undergo periodic re-translation is that linguistic forms change over time, and new translations adjust texts so that they change as well, which prevents them from becoming linguistically static. Some readers, however, may question whether the changes in English from 1921 to 2001 were so significant that a new translation was warranted. (But this is an academic issue of real interest only to specialists.) Such questions aside, Russell's work is very well done, capturing the essence of the original Latin in a smooth and eloquent style that navigates carefully between the literal and the figurative.
Exhaustive Exposition on Oratory.......2004-10-08
Quintilian was not only a successful trial lawyer, he was a highly respected teacher and a writer of no mean skill. He put together a twelve book work on oratory which deals with all aspects of oratory, from the beginning of elementary education to the qualities of the polished orator. No other ancient author on rhetoric had such a prolific output of didactic material. Cicero may have published more, but the bulk of his rhetorical output was the publication of his more celebrated speeches.
The Loeb Classical Library collects Quintilian's writings into a five volume publication. Volume One contains Books 1 & 2, which deal with the beginning of the education process through a prolegomena which explores the nature of rhetoric.
Volume Two contains Books 3 through 5. Book 3 continues the prolegomena, talks about the types of rhetoric (epideictic, deliberative, and forensic), the types of issues (conjectural, definitional, and qualitative), and a discussion of how to determine the Point for Decision (in "Rhetorica ad Herennium," this is called the Point to Adjudicate). Book 4 takes up the Parts of Forensic Causes, and Book 5 deals with Proofs and Refutations. Interestingly, Quintilian gives some excellent advice on how to interrogate hostile witnesses and conduct cross examinations. Book 5 concludes with a discussion of the enthymeme and epicheireme.
Volume Three contains Books 6 - 8. Book 6 deals with emotion. Book 7 with a deeper study of the types of issues. Book 8 begins a discussion of Elocution which will continue through Books 9 - 11.
Volume Four continues the discussion of Elocution through Books 9 and 10. Book 9 concludes the theory of Elocution and Book 10 discusses practical exercises to improve Elocution.
Volume Five contains Books 11 & 12. Book 11 finishes the discussion of Elocution and then discusses Memory and Delivery. Book 12 ends the work with a discussion of "The good man skilled in speaking."
Oftentimes the star athlete makes a mediocre coach while the mediocre athlete makes a star coach. The old saw "He who can, does; he who can't teaches," does not apply to Quintilian. He reveals himself to be not only a star advocate, but an excellent coach as well.
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Quintilian: The Lesser Declamations I (Loeb Classical Library No. 500)
Quintilian , and D. R. Shackleton Bailey
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The Lesser Declamations, dating perhaps from the second century a.d. 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. </p>
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. </p>
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. </p>
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The Lesser Declamations II (Loeb Classical Library)
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The Lesser Declamations, dating perhaps from the second century a.d. 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. </p>
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. </p>
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. </p>
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Institutionis Oratoriae: Volume II: Books VII-XII
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Training of an Orator: Volume II. Books 4-6 (Loeb Classical Library)
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Quintilian was born in Spain about <FONT SIZE="-1">A.D.</FONT> 35; he became a well-known and prosperous teacher of rhetoric in Rome, probably the first to receive a salary as such from public funds. His Institutio Oratoria (Training of an Orator), a comprehensive training program in twelve books, draws on his own rich experience. Here Quintilian gives guidelines for proper schooling (beginning with the young boy); analyzes the structure of speeches and recommends devices for engaging listeners and appealing to their emotions; reviews a wide range of Greek and Latin authors of use to the orator; and counsels on memory, delivery, and gestures. This practical guide, in lucid style, provides valuable insight on Roman education. The work also yields many a memorable comment on the styles of various writers.
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Quintilian III
Quintilian , and H.E. Butler
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Quintilian was born in Spain about <FONT SIZE="-1">A.D.</FONT> 35; he became a well-known and prosperous teacher of rhetoric in Rome, probably the first to receive a salary as such from public funds. His Institutio Oratoria (Training of an Orator), a comprehensive training program in twelve books, draws on his own rich experience. Here Quintilian gives guidelines for proper schooling (beginning with the young boy); analyzes the structure of speeches and recommends devices for engaging listeners and appealing to their emotions; reviews a wide range of Greek and Latin authors of use to the orator; and counsels on memory, delivery, and gestures. This practical guide, in lucid style, provides valuable insight on Roman education. The work also yields many a memorable comment on the styles of various writers.
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Excellent Exposition on Oratory.......2004-10-08
Quintilian was not only a successful trial lawyer, he was a highly respected teacher and a writer of no mean skill. He put together a twelve book work on oratory which deals with all aspects of oratory, from the beginning of elementary education to the qualities of the polished orator. No other ancient author on rhetoric had such a prolific output of didactic material. Cicero may have published more, but the bulk of his rhetorical output was the publication of his more celebrated speeches.
Oftentimes the star athlete makes a mediocre coach while the mediocre athlete makes a star coach. The old saw "He who can, does; he who can't teaches," does not apply to Quintilian. He reveals himself to be not only a star advocate, but an excellent coach as well.
This, however, is not the volume to purchase if you want to read Quintilian. The Loeb Classical Library has recently published a brand new five volume translation of this book under the title, "The Orator's Education."
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