Institutio oratoria.
By: Quintilian ; edited by Tobias Reinhardt and Michael Winterbottom.
Contributors: Reinhardt, Tobias.; Winterbottom, Michael, 1934-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 435
ISBN-13: 9780199262656
Subjects: Quintilian.; Oratory -- Early works to 1800.
Work titles: Institutiones oratoriae. Liber 2.
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.
Notes: Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: The author and the book; title: Teaching rhetoric; title: Classroom procedure; title: Quintilian and theon; title: Defining rhetoric; title: Historical context; title: The main argument; title: Source; title: Strategies; title: Note on the text; title: Text; title: Commentary; title: Appendix : parallel passages in Sextus, Philodemus, and the prolegomena; title: Index of Latin words; title: Index of Greek words; title: General index.