The Orator's Education

Informationen zum Autor Donald A. Russell is Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature, University of Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford. Klappentext Quintilian was born in Spain about A.D. 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. Zusammenfassung Quintilian, born in Spain about AD 35, became a renowned and successful teacher of rhetoric in Rome. In The Orator’s Education (Institutio Oratoria), a comprehensive training program in twelve books, he draws on his own rich experience. It provides not only insights on oratory, but also a picture of Roman education and social attitudes.

Product details

• Authors: Quintilian
• Assisted by: Donald A. Russell (Editor), Donald A. Russell (Translation), Donald A. Russell (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2001
• EAN: 9780674995932
• ISBN: 978-0-674-99593-2
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 115 mm x 170 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Loeb Classical Library; Loeb Classical Library; Loeb Classical Library *CONTINS TO [e-mail]
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Latin, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Public speaking guides, Literary essays, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Speaking in public: advice and guides, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc