The Orator’s Education, Volume V: Books 11–12

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Quintilian was born in Spain about A.D.35, he became a well-known and prosperous teacher of rhetoric in Rome, probably the first to receive a salary as such from public funds. His "Institutio Oratoria" (Training of an Orator), a comprehensive training program in twelve books, draws on his own rich experience. Here Quintilian gives guidelines for proper schooling (beginning with the young boy), analyzes the structure of speeches and recommends devices for engaging listeners and appealing to their emotions, reviews a wide range of Greek and Latin authors of use to the orator, and counsels on memory, delivery, and gestures. This practical guide, in lucid style, provides valuable insight on Roman education. The work also yields many a memorable comment on the styles of various writers.