Papers on Quintilian and Ancient Declamation

by Michael Winterbottom

Declamation - the practice of training young men to speak in public by setting them to compose and deliver speeches on fictional legal cases - was central to the Greek and Roman educational systems over many centuries and has been the subject of a recent explosion of scholarly interest. The work of Michael Winterbottom has been seminal in this regard, and the present volume brings together a broad selection of his scholarly articles and reviews published...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198836058
• ISBN13: 9780198836056
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"