Institutio oratoria

Description:

With Latin text and a commentary, this is an edition of Book 2 of Quintilian's 'Education of the Orator'. It gives important insights into the way teaching was conducted in a rhetorical school in Rome in the first century AD, and discusses the various elementary rhetorical exercises, one by one.

subjects: Rhetoric,  Oratory,  Criticism and interpretation,  Style,  Ancient Rhetoric,  Early works to 1800,  Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin,  Education,  Manuscripts,  Ancient Oratory,  Education, rome

People: Quintilian

Places: Rome