Research Catalog

Title

Papers on Quintilian and Ancient Declamation / Michael Winterbottom ; edited by Antonio Stramaglia with Francesca Romana Nocchi and Giuseppe Russo.

Author

Winterbottom, Michael, 1934-

Publication

• Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
• ©2019

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Additional Authors

• Nocchi, Francesca Romana
• Russo, Giuseppe, 1969-
• Stramaglia, Antonio

Description

xxvi, 370 pages : portrait; 24 cm

Summary

Declamation - the practice of training young men to speak in public by setting them to compose and deliver speeches on fictional legal cases - was central to the Greek and Roman educational systems over many centuries and has been the subject of a recent explosion of scholarly interest. The work of Michael Winterbottom has been seminal in this regard, and the present volume brings together a broad selection of his scholarly articles and reviews published since 1964, creating an authoritative and accessible resource for this burgeoning field of study. The assembled papers focus on two related topics: the rhetorician Quintilian and ancient declamation in practice. Quintilian, who taught rhetoric at Rome in the second half of the first century AD, was the author of the Institutio Oratoria, a key text for Roman educational practice, rhetoric, and literary criticism. Subjects explored in the present collection range widely over not only the establishment and interpretation of the text and its literary and historical context, but also Quintilian's views on inspiration, morality, philosophy, and declamation, of which he was a practitioner. While the volume also offers detailed examinations of the texts and interpretations of a wide range of Latin and Greek authors of declamations, such as Seneca the Elder, Sopatros, and Ennodius, there is a particular focus on two collections wrongly attributed to Quintilian, the so-called 'Minor' and 'Major Declamations'. A major re-assessment of the manuscript tradition of the latter collection is published here for the first time.

Subject

• Quintilian > Criticism and interpretation
• Quintilian
• Rhetoric, Ancient

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Call Number

JFE 19-7824

ISBN

• 9780198836056
• 0198836058

OCLC

1048940666

Author

Winterbottom, Michael, 1934- author.

Title

Papers on Quintilian and Ancient Declamation / Michael Winterbottom ; edited by Antonio Stramaglia with Francesca Romana Nocchi and Giuseppe Russo.

Publisher

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Nocchi, Francesca Romana, editor.

Russo, Giuseppe, 1969- editor.

Stramaglia, Antonio, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-7824