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 since 1964, creating an authoritative and accessible resource for this burgeoning field of study.
The assembled papers focus on two related topics: the rhetorician Quintilian and ancient declamation in practice. Quintilian, who taught rhetoric at Rome in the second half of the first century AD, was the author of the Institutio Oratoria, a key text for Roman educational practice, rhetoric, and literary criticism. Subjects explored in the present collection range widely over not only the establishment and interpretation of the text and its literary and historical context, but also Quintilian's views on inspiration, morality, philosophy, and declamation, of which he was a practitioner. While the volume also offers detailed examinations of the texts and interpretations of a wide range of Latin and Greek authors of declamations, such as Seneca the Elder, Sopatros, and Ennodius, there is a particular focus on two collections wrongly attributed to Quintilian, the so-called 'Minor' and 'Major Declamations'. A major re-assessment of the manuscript tradition of the latter collection is published here for the first time.
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Michael Winterbottom was born in Cheshire in 1934, and educated at Dulwich College and Pembroke College, Oxford. He spent most of his working life in Oxford, first as tutorial fellow in Classics at Worcester College, and later as Corpus Christi Professor of Latin. Since his retirement in 2001 he has been closely associated with Italian projects on Roman declamation, but he has continued to work also on Medieval Latin, which has always been a major interest. Antonio Stramaglia is Professor of Latin at the University of Bari. Francesca Romana Nocchi teaches Latin Language and Literature at Tuscia University, Viterbo. Giuseppe Russo teaches Latin Language and Literature at the University of Basilicata, Matera.
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