Quintilian ; edited by Tobias Reinhardt and Michael Winterbottom
Volume Designation
Book 2 /
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2006
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
lii, 435 p. ;
Dimensions
24 cm
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
Includes indexes
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
CONTENTS NOTE
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The author and the book -- Teaching rhetoric -- Classroom procedure -- Quintilian and theon -- Defining rhetoric -- Historical context -- The main argument -- Source -- Strategies -- Note on the text -- Text -- Commentary -- Appendix : parallel passages in Sextus, Philodemus, and the prolegomena -- Index of Latin words -- Index of Greek words -- General index
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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