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The Major Declamations, Volume III - Quintilian, and Stramaglia, Antonio (Editor), and Winterbottom, Michael (Notes by)
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The Major Declamations , attributed to Quintilian in antiquity, exemplify the final stage of Greco-Roman rhetorical training, in which students delivered speeches for the prosecution and defense at imaginary trials. A wide variety of fascinating ethical, social, and legal details animate the fictional world conjured up by these oratorical exercises.

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The Major Declamations, Volume III 2021, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674997424

Hardcover