The Major Declamations, Volume I Quintilian
The Major Declamations, Volume I Quintilian The Major Declamations stand out for their unique contribution to our understanding of the final stage in Greco-Roman rhetorical training. And what is…
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The Major Declamations, Volume I Quintilian
The Major Declamations stand out for their unique contribution to our understanding of the final stage in Greco-Roman rhetorical training. And what is more, they lay bare the mistakes that students often made in this process.The practice of declamation was already flourishing in Greece as early as the fifth century BC, but nearly all of its vast tradition has disappeared except the present anthology, whose nineteen declamations are almost the only substantial examples surviving from pre-medieval Latinity. These exercises, in which students learned how to compose and deliver speeches on behalf of either the prosecution or the defense at imaginary trials, demonstrate how standard themes, recurring situations and arguments, and technical rules were to be handled by the aspiring orator.
They seem to represent that tradition reasonably well: although attributed to the great
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