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1 day ago · Quintilian (35–100 CE) began his career as a pleader in the courts of law; his reputation grew so great that Vespasian created a chair of rhetoric for him in Rome.
Sep 26, 2024 · Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, II.13.2-3, translated by Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler (with modest changes) Here the rhetorician with his adaptability to circumstances is like a general who needs to exhibit what Machiavelli would call Virtu.
Sep 6, 2024 · What is Literary Criticism (Sep. 06, 2024) literary criticism, the reasoned consideration of literary works and issues. It applies, as a term, to any argumentation about literature, whether or not specific works are analyzed.
6 days ago · But this instruction was to remain always very close to its Hellenistic origins: the terminology used by Rome’s greatest educator, Quintilian (c. 35–c. 100 ce), was much more impregnated with Hellenism, much less Latinized, than that which Cicero had proposed. At Rome, too, rhetoric became the form of higher education enjoying the greatest ...
2 days ago · Cicero has been traditionally considered the master of Latin prose, with Quintilian declaring that Cicero was "not the name of a man, but of eloquence itself." [139] The English words Ciceronian (meaning "eloquent") and cicerone (meaning "local guide") derive from his name.
Sep 10, 2024 · Quick Facts. Greek: Aristoteles. Born: 384 bce, Stagira, Chalcidice, Greece. Died: 322, Chalcis, Euboea. Founder: Lyceum. Notable Works: “Categories” “Eudemian Ethics” “History of Animals” “Metaphysica” “Nicomachean Ethics” “Ode to Virtue” “On Generation and Corruption” “On Interpretation”
Sep 7, 2024 · Quintilian, An Orator’s Education 10.1.47. “Hence, as Aratus believes that we must begin with Zeus, we think that it is right to begin with Homer. For, truly, just as what he says about the ocean, which he says is the source and the force of every river and stream, so too does Homer furnish the model and origin for every type of eloquence.
