The Loeb Classical Library: The Orator’s Education, Volume I: Books 1–2

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The Loeb Classical Library: The Orator’s Education, Volume I: Books 1–2Quintilian, born in Spain about AD 35, became a widely known and highly successful teacher of rhetoric in Rome. The Orators Education (Institutio Oratoria), a comprehensive training program in twelve books, draws on his own rich experience. It is a work of enduring importance, not only for its insights on oratory, but for the picture it paints of education and social attitudes in the Roman world. Quintilian offers both general and specific advice. He

It is thus an important record of Greek accounts of the origin and early history of the world and their race

Their very different attitudes to love and romance provide one of the play's chief points of interest

that he left Athens for a time after Socrates’ execution is probable

or given a raw deal

and suggestions for further reading

Apart from small-talk (but even that is replete with interest) the principal subject is Latin prose style

αυτός είναι ο ανήφορος που όλοι πρέπει να διαβούμε

with foxing on the spine

who traveled widely not only in Asia Minor

Οι άθλοι του Ηρακλή

On a second embassy in 346 to ratify a peace Aeschines’ delaying tactics caused the famous orator Demosthenes and Timarchus to accuse him of treason

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