Declamations, Volume II: Controversiae, Books 7-10. Suasoriae. Fragments [Latin]

by Marcus Annaeus Seneca, Seneca the elder, Seneca

Mock trial--Roman style.

Roman secondary education aimed principally at training future lawyers and politicians. Under the late Republic and the Empire, the main instrument was an import from Greece: declamation, the making of practice speeches on imaginary subjects. There were two types of such speeches: controversiae on law-court themes, suasoriae on deliberative topics. On both types a prime source of our knowledge...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Latin
• ISBN: 0674995112
• ISBN13: 9780674995116
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 656 Pages
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