The Major Declamations Ascribed to Quintilian: A Translation

by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus and Lewis A. Sussman

The Major (or longer ) Declamations falsely ascribed to the Roman rhetorician Quintilian contain nineteen model speeches on fictitious court cases, more precisely termed controversiae. Composed by an unknown author or authors, perhaps in the second or third centuries A.D., these are the only extant full Latin controversiae, the practice speeches whose composition anddelivery formed the mainstay of Roman higher education. Declamation therefore had...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3820497722
• ISBN13: 9783820497724
• Release Date: December 1987
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.