Reading Quintilian by Laura Loporcaro
Reading Quintiliantakes Quintilian's Institutio oratoriaas a coherent literary work: one worth reading in full. This book examines how didactic authority is created and how readers are guided through the Institutiothanks to an overarching framework that holds it together. This framework is composed of several leitmotifs: the author's self-staging, statements of didactic intent and method, the depiction of an ideal didactic constellation, remarks suggesting that the work proceeds in parallel with the pupil's training and the author's life, polemics against other authorities, and proleptic strategies deflecting responsibility for students' potential failures. As Reading Quintilianshows, the pervasiveness of that framework, and the implementation in the Institutioof the same rhetorical strategies it describes, indicate that the work is not a mere accumulation of precepts, but an artfully crafted whole. All the stops of rhetorical art are pulled out to engage readers and to persuade them that the teachings conveyed are valid. Laura Loporcaro grounds her analysis of the leitmotifs in the discussion of central themes, including Quintilian's reception of Cicero and Seneca the Younger, his conception of the ideal orator, and his polemic against 'corrupt' oratory. Combining a panoramic view with in-depth study of single leitmotifs and themes, Reading Quintilianinvestigates the construction, goals, and models of the Institutio, thereby shedding new light on the treatise as a whole.-
Inventing the Barbarian
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The Roman Army at War 100 BC - AD 200
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Religion and Society in Ancient Thessaly
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Women in Ancient Persia, 559-331 BC
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Between Empires
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The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines
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Consentius' De barbarismis et metaplasmis
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Epicurus’ Human Beings
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Revenge in Seneca's Tragedies
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Exemplarity and Allusion in Macrobius' Saturnalia
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Roman Priests from Republic to Empire
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Emperor Worship and Roman Religion
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Singing for the Gods
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Agathokles of Syracuse
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Pseudo-Arcadius' Epitome of Herodian's De Prosodia Catholica
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Divine Talk
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Exemplary Epic
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Historiography at the End of the Republic
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Pindar and the Cult of Heroes
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The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite
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Child Emperor Rule in the Late Roman West, AD 367-455
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Plutarch Against Colotes
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Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity
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Episcopal Elections 250-600
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The Stoics on Lekta
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The Chorus of Drama in the Fourth Century BCE
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Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity
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Roman Republican Augury
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Pindar and the Poetics of Permanence
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Powers of Expression, Expressions of Power
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Sievers' Law and the History of Semivowel Syllabicity in Indo-European and Ancient Greek
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Alcibiades and Athens
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Guilt by Descent
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Lucan: Spectacle and Engagement
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Cicero, Rhetoric, and Empire
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Canons of Style in the Antonine Age
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Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, and Christianity, 100 BC to AD 200
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Plato's Symposium
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Callimachus' Book of Iambi
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Stasis and Stability
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Experiencing Pain in Imperial Greek Culture
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Cicero's Role Models
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Jerome, Vita Malchi
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Kings and Usurpers in the Seleukid Empire
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Thucydides: Narrative and Explanation
Laura Loporcaro is a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University in the ERC-project Philology as Science in Nineteeenth-Century Europe. She joined the project after completing her DPhil at the University of Oxford in summer 2022. Previously, she obtained an MA in Classical philology (2018) and a BA in History (2016) at the Free University of Berlin.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198911500 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198911505 |
| Title | Reading Quintilian |
| Author | Laura Loporcaro |
| Series | Oxford Classical Monographs |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2025-02-20 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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