Declamations, Volume I: Controversiae, Books 1-6 [Latin]

by Marcus Annaeus 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: 0674995104
• ISBN13: 9780674995109
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.6" x 6.6"