Institutio Oratoria, Books 1 3 by Quintilian
Books 1-3
These books chart the orator’s formation from childhood through the threshold of professional training, insisting that virtue undergird eloquence. They prescribe vigilant parental and pedagogical care, correct speech from the earliest lessons, thorough linguistic and literary study with poets, historians, and philosophers, and graded exercises that balance imitation, writing, and extemporaneous practice. Shifting to doctrine, they define the art and its end, classify kinds of oratory and questions, and establish the stasis framework and other fundamentals that guide analysis of causes, laying the groundwork for detailed treatment of the parts of a speech in subsequent books.
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- Education of the Orator
- Institutes of Oratory
- On the Education of an Orator
- The Orator's Education
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