Reading Quintilian - Didactic Authority in the Institutio Oratoria

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Setting the Scene


• 2: In the Shadow of Cicero


• 3: The Ideal Orator


• 4: Playing with Anachronism? On Contemporary Oratory


• Conclusion

About the author

Laura Loporcaro is a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University in the ERC-project Philology as Science in Nineteeenth-Century Europe. She joined the project after completing her DPhil at the University of Oxford in summer 2022. Previously, she obtained an MA in Classical philology (2018) and a BA in History (2016) at the Free University of Berlin.

Summary

Reading Quintilian analyses how didactic authority is created in Quintilian's Institutio oratoria. Laura Loporcaro argues that the implementation in the Institutio of the same rhetorical strategies it describes, indicates that the work is not a mere accumulation of facts, but an artfully crafted whole.

Product details

• Authors: Laura Loporcaro, Laura (Ghent University) Loporcaro
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.02.2025
• EAN: 9780198911500
• ISBN: 978-0-19-891150-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Literary theory, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval