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This volume is an edition, with a new Latin text and full commentary, of Book 2 of Quintilian's Education of the Orator. Education and the conceptualization of technical disciplines are now focal points of research into Graeco-Roman antiquity, and Quintilian's work is central to both areas.
Following the treatment of elementary education in Book 1, Quintilian proceeds to the discussion of the second stage of instruction, provided by the teacher of rhetoric. He 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. The second half of the book is concerned with Quintilian's theoretical conception of rhetoric. Rhetoric is seen as an "art," a technical discipline grounded in rules and organized like medicine or seafaring, and--less obviously--as a
virtue. The section as a whole provides an argument for Quintilian's celebrated claim that the perfect orator is "a good man, skilled in speaking." ... Read more

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Quintilian, born in Spain about 35 CE, became a widely known and highly successful teacher of rhetoric in Rome. The Orator's 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 gives guidelines for proper schooling (beginning with the young boy); analyzes the structure of speeches; recommends devices that will engage listeners and appeal to their emotions; reviews a wide range of Greek and Latin authors of use to the orator; and counsels on memory, delivery, and gestures.

Donald Russell's new five-volume Loeb Classical Library edition of The Orator's Education, which replaces an eighty-year-old translation by H. E. Butler, provides a text and facing translation fully up to date in light of current scholarship and well tuned to today's taste. Russell also provides unusually rich explanatory notes, which enable full appreciation of this central work in the history of rhetoric.

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The New Translation
Russell's translation of Quintilian's Institution Oratoria (published in 2001) replaces Butler's edition, which was published in 1921.The translation, overall, is excellent, as we would expect from someone with Russell's credentials, but the question that most readers should ask is this:Is it better?Some will answer affirmatively owing to the fact that they (or their students) find Russell's translation easier to read: The language is generally more contemporarily colloquial, especially in terms of structure.Others will suggest that his translation is not better than Butler's, just different.Indeed, the reason classical works undergo periodic re-translation is that linguistic forms change over time, and new translations adjust texts so that they change as well, which prevents them from becoming linguistically static.Some readers, however, may question whether the changes in English from 1921 to 2001 were so significant that a new translation was warranted.(But this is an academic issue of real interest only to specialists.)Such questions aside, Russell's work is very well done, capturing the essence of the original Latin in a smooth and eloquent style that navigates carefully between the literal and the figurative.

Exhaustive Exposition on Oratory
Quintilian was not only a successful trial lawyer, he was a highly respected teacher and a writer of no mean skill.He put together a twelve book work on oratory which deals with all aspects of oratory, from the beginning of elementary education to the qualities of the polished orator.No other ancient author on rhetoric had such a prolific output of didactic material.Cicero may have published more, but the bulk of his rhetorical output was the publication of his more celebrated speeches.

The Loeb Classical Library collects Quintilian's writings into a five volume publication.Volume One contains Books 1 & 2, which deal with the beginning of the education process through a prolegomena which explores the nature of rhetoric.

Volume Two contains Books 3 through 5.Book 3 continues the prolegomena, talks about the types of rhetoric (epideictic, deliberative, and forensic), the types of issues (conjectural, definitional, and qualitative), and a discussion of how to determine the Point for Decision (in "Rhetorica ad Herennium," this is called the Point to Adjudicate).Book 4 takes up the Parts of Forensic Causes, and Book 5 deals with Proofs and Refutations.Interestingly, Quintilian gives some excellent advice on how to interrogate hostile witnesses and conduct cross examinations.Book 5 concludes with a discussion of the enthymeme and epicheireme.

Volume Three contains Books 6 - 8.Book 6 deals with emotion.Book 7 with a deeper study of the types of issues. Book 8 begins a discussion of Elocution which will continue through Books 9 - 11.

Volume Four continues the discussion of Elocution through Books 9 and 10.Book 9 concludes the theory of Elocution and Book 10 discusses practical exercises to improve Elocution.

Volume Five contains Books 11 & 12.Book 11 finishes the discussion of Elocution and then discusses Memory and Delivery.Book 12 ends the work with a discussion of "The good man skilled in speaking."

Oftentimes the star athlete makes a mediocre coach while the mediocre athlete makes a star coach.The old saw "He who can, does; he who can't teaches," does not apply to Quintilian.He reveals himself to be not only a star advocate, but an excellent coach as well.
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The Lesser Declamations, dating perhaps from the second century CE and attributed to Quintilian, might more accurately be described as emanating from "the school of Quintilian."The collection--here made available for the first time in translation--represents classroom materials for budding Roman lawyers.

The instructor who composed these specimen speeches for fictitious court cases adds his comments and suggestions concerning presentation and arguing tactics--thereby giving us insight into Roman law and education. A wide range of scenarios is imagined.Some evoke the plots of ancient novels and comedies: pirates, exiles, parents and children in conflict, adulterers, rapists, and wicked stepmothers abound. Other cases deal with such matters as warfare between neighboring cities, smuggling, historical (and quasi-historical) events, tyrants and tyrannicides. Two gems are the speech opposing a proposal to equalize wealth, and the case of a Cynic youth who has forsworn worldly goods but sues his father for cutting off his allowance.

Of the original 388 sample cases in the collection, 145 survive. These are now added to the Loeb Classical Library in a two-volume edition, a fluent translation by D. R. Shackleton Bailey facing an updated Latin text.

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Although rhetoric is a term often associated with lies, this book takes a polemical look at rhetoric as a purveyor of truth. Its purpose is to focus on one aspect of rhetoric, figurative speech, and to demonstrate how the treatment of figures of speech provides a common denominator among western cultures from Cicero to the present. The central idea is that, in the western tradition, figurative speech - using language to do more than name - provides the fundamental way for language to articulate concerns central to each cultural moment. In this study Sarah Spence identifies embedded tropes for four periods in Western culture: Roman antiquity, the High Middle Ages, the Age of Montaigne, and our present, post-9/11 moment. In so doing she reasserts the fundamental importance of rhetoric, the art of speaking well. ... Read more

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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. ... Read more

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Excellent Exposition on Oratory
Quintilian was not only a successful trial lawyer, he was a highly respected teacher and a writer of no mean skill. He put together a twelve book work on oratory which deals with all aspects of oratory, from the beginning of elementary education to the qualities of the polished orator. No other ancient author on rhetoric had such a prolific output of didactic material. Cicero may have published more, but the bulk of his rhetorical output was the publication of his more celebrated speeches.

Oftentimes the star athlete makes a mediocre coach while the mediocre athlete makes a star coach. The old saw "He who can, does; he who can't teaches," does not apply to Quintilian. He reveals himself to be not only a star advocate, but an excellent coach as well.

This, however, is not the volume to purchase if you want to read Quintilian.The Loeb Classical Library has recently published a brand new five volume translation of this book under the title, "The Orator's Education." ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program. ... Read more

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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. ... Read more

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Book X of Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria is the most accessible section of his remarkable treatise. Chapter I is a survey and critique on the evolution of Greek and Roman literature-poetry, history, oratory, and philosophy-that defends as the key to "How to acquire a command of diction." This chapter can serve as an introduction to Greek literature for the "Greekless" student. Remaining chapters cover "Of Imitation," "How to Write," "Revision-its uses and limitations," "What to Write," "Of Meditation," and "Of Extempore Speaking." In short, it is a comprehensive manual, both of education in general as well as education of the orator in particular.Institutio Oratoria is a rare treat among rhetorical treatises: Sir William Peterson describes its style as "dignified and yet sweet." During the Renaissance, after its rediscovery by Poggio, it won praise for Quintilian as one of the most important writers of classical antiquity. It continued to impress luminaries such as Luther, Erasmus, Milton, J. S. Mill, and Macaulay. More recently, in the third edition of The Oxford Classical Dictionary, Neil Hopkinson describes itas "a storehouse of sanity, humane scholarship and good sense." ... Read more

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Exhaustive Exposition on Oratory
Quintilian was not only a successful trial lawyer, he was a highly respected teacher and a writer of no mean skill. He put together a twelve book work on oratory which deals with all aspects of oratory, from the beginning of elementary education to the qualities of the polished orator. No other ancient author on rhetoric had such a prolific output of didactic material. Cicero may have published more, but the bulk of his rhetorical output was the publication of his more celebrated speeches.

Oftentimes the star athlete makes a mediocre coach while the mediocre athlete makes a star coach. The old saw "He who can, does; he who can't teaches," does not apply to Quintilian. He reveals himself to be not only a star advocate, but an excellent coach as well.

This, however, is not the volume to purchase if you want to read Quintilian.The Loeb Classical Library has recently published a brand new five volume translation of this book under the title, "The Orator's Education."
... Read more

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To win or not to win, this is the question in every political debate and in every lawsuit, and the key to success is the art of persuasion. Therefore it is essential for politicians and lawyers to have a perfect command of that art. One may have a natural talent to move an audience, but in order to speak well when the occasion or the subject demands, one has to know the rules of rhetoric. When a politician wants his audience to make a certain decision, he can reach his goal, for instance, by offering two possible decisions - a "good" one and a "bad" one, by repeating his arguments and, above all, by using humor. A lawyer who wants to convince the judge must be able to present the facts of the case in such a manner that the judge not only believes him but also wants to believe him, and he must show that his arguments are not only legally but also morally better than those of his opponent. ... Read more

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Things are not ducky in Edinburgh in 2025. Indeed, they've been far fromducky since the financial collapse of 2002, the crippling global warming, theUK's devolution into so many anarchic city-states, and Edinburgh's embrace ofthe Enlightenment (the ironic name of their dystopian state, controlled by theCouncil of City Guardians) and its de facto absence of individual liberty.

On the bright side, crime's down, tourism's up, and the Edlott lottery (a"citizen's" only shot at betterment) is doing land-office business. A pity,then, that recent winner Fordyce Kennedy's gone missing and Frankie Thomson, ademoted Auxiliary Guardsman, has turned up dead on the banks of the Water ofLeith. Ironically, Frankie died of nicotine poisoning after sampling acontraband bottle of "Ultimate Usquebaugh." Usquebaugh is Gaelic for "the waterof life," or whisky.

Enter Quintilian Dalrymple, Water of Death's noirish, blues-haunted hero,a freelance detective (himself a demotee from the powerful Auxiliary Guardthanks to exploits detailed in 1999's award-winning Body Politic and 2000's The Bone Yard) who'sreluctantly tapped by the Guardians when things get deadly. With the help of hisGuardsman sidekick, Davie, and the sufferance of a by-the-book superior, Quintis tasked with finding Fordyce, finding Frankie's murderer, and finally, findingFordyce's murderer after he, too, succumbs to Ultimate Usquebaugh. In themeantime, Quint juggles the professional-intimate relationship he's having withthe city's Senior Guardian, Sophia, the reemergence of his ex-lover, Katharine,and the fact that Katharine, Sophia, and countless others are possiblecommitters of the mounting crimes.

Intelligent, breezy, and surely paced, Paul Johnston's wryly humorous mysterysucceeds despite its basic whodunit plot. Clever dialogue and likeable (if notwholly fleshed) characters abound, and the near-future setting provides enoughdiversion and sociopolitical food-for-thought to nicely carry the day. -- Michael HudsonBook Description
EDINBURGH 2025: Global warming has turned the summer into the Big Heat in Edinburgh, an independent, virtually crime-free oasis surrounded by anarchic city states and run by the Council of City Guardians.In a city where television, private cars and cigarettes are banned, and electricity, food and sex are rationed, citizens live for the weekly lottery drawing while serving tourists in their year-round festival. Their reverie is broken when a recent lottery winner goes missing, and subversive, blues-haunted private investigator Quintilian Dalrymple is called in to investigate the disappearance. Soon after, a body is discovered in the Water of Leith - a bottle of contraband whisky the only clue left behind.The Council, increasingly fearful of losing its grip on power, expects Quint to stop the tormentors dead in the water. But he is having serious difficulty distinguishing friend from foe during the Big Heat. Meanwhile the body count, like the temperature, keeps on rising....AUTHORBIO: Paul Johnston was born in Edinburgh in 1957. He now divides his time between a small Greek island and the United Kingdom. Water of Death features characters from both Body Politic, winner of the CWA John Creasey Award for best first crime novel, and The Bone Yard. ... Read more

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interesting sf mystery
In 2025, compared with the anarchy that surrounds it, Edinburgh remains a calm island of no crime.Though rationing is a way of life and entertainment only comes in the form of a festival for tourists, the clever City Council occupies the restless residents with a weekly lottery.How can individuals not play when a five-minute shower a day is a potential prize.

However, a missing person interrupts the lottery nirvana when Kennedy, a winner, simply vanishes.Rumors spread quickly, and the concerned Edinburgh leadership hires private investigator Quint Dalrymple to quickly learn the truth.Before he can solve that case, murdered bodies begin to appear in the Leith, leaving the City Council in a panic, a city in fear, and a pressured Quint trying to stop a body count from growing any further.

Award winning Paul Johnston's world is radically different from that of today.Global warming has reached extreme levels turning the climate into the Big Heat.Everything seems rationed and centrally controlled.Still Quint remains an interesting character with his obsession for the blues standing out in this drab world.Mr. Johnston brings in his full cast from the previous two books, but instead of the welcome return of old friends, this sends a clever story line spinning into chaos greater than his surrounding countryside.Doomsday fanatics will relish WATER OF DEATH and its predecessors for its descriptive look at an apparently dying society trying to survive. However, readers of other science fiction sub-genres will struggle with the plot's anarchy.

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