Institutio Oratoria (On the Education of an Orator), volume 1

By Quintilianus, Marcus Fabius

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Title:	Institutio Oratoria (On the Education of an Orator), volume 1
Author:	Quintilianus, Marcus Fabius
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non-fiction, Advice, Ancient Texts
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Institutio Oratoria (On the Education of an Orator), volume 1
Historic Publication Date:	1920
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Fabius Quintilianus, B. M. (1920). Institutio Oratoria (On the Education of an Orator), volume 1. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.us/

Description
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was of Spanish origin, being born about 35 A.D. at Calagurris. At Rome he met with great success as a teacher and was the first rhetorician to set up a genuine public school and to receive a salary from the State. He left behind him a treatise On the causes of the decadence of Roman oratory (De causis corruptae eloquentiae), some speeches and his magnum opus, the only one to survive to our days. His Institutio Oratoria, despite the fact that much of it is highly technical, has still much that is of interest to‑day, even for those who care little for the history of rhetoric. (Summary adapted from the translator's preface) This first volume covers books 1 to 3.

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

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Advice, Ancient Texts, Classics (antiquity), Instruction