Classical Literary Criticism

Classical Literary Criticism
Author: Donald Andrew Russell
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1998
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780192839008

This volume provides, in translation, the principal texts of ancient literary criticism, including Aristotle's Poetics, Horace's Art of Poetry, Longinus' On Sublimity, Tacitus' Dialogues, and extracts from Plato and Plutarch.

Institutio oratoria

Institutio oratoria
Author: Quintilian
Publisher:
Total Pages: 558
Release: 1977
Genre: Education
ISBN:

A twelve-volume textbook on the theory and practice of rhetoric

Progymnasmata

Progymnasmata
Author: George Alexander Kennedy
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9789004127234

This volume provides an English translation of four Greek treatises written during the time of the Roman empire and attributed to Theon, Hermogenes, Aphthonius, and Nicolaus. Several of these works are translated here for the first time. Paperback edition available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org).

Persuasion, Rhetoric and Roman Poetry

Persuasion, Rhetoric and Roman Poetry
Author: Irene Peirano Garrison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2019-08-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107104246

Offers a radical re-appraisal of rhetoric's relation to literature, with fresh insights into rhetorical sources and their reception in Roman poetry.

The Oxford Handbook of Quintilian

The Oxford Handbook of Quintilian
Author: Michael Edwards
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 593
Release: 2022-01-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 0198713789

The Oxford Handbook of Quintilian aims to trace Quintilian's influence on the theory and practice of rhetoric and education up to the present. Chapters cover topics including Quintilian's Institutio oratoria, his views on education and literary criticism, and his reception and influence.

Kākā'ōlelo

Kākā'ōlelo
Author: Malcolm Nāea Chun
Publisher: CRDG
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2008
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1583510494

In one of his last published papers, Te Rangi Hiroa (Sir Peter Buck), the only Polynesian director of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, asked what happened to Hawaiian oratory and speech making. Oratory is renowned throughout the Pacific, especially in Polynesia. But who were, and are, the great Hawaiian orators? What are the most memorable of the traditional speeches, and why are they remembered and recited today? Malcolm Naea Chun takes up this Maori challenge, describing the historical roots of Hawaiian oratory, and its eventual decline. He adds to this his personal experience as a speech writer and as a speech maker to kings and queens, indigenous tribunals, conferences, and gatherings to recreate a formidable picture of Hawaiian oratory, finishing with a discussion of what can be done today to revive this forgotten art form. This book is one of eleven short volumes of the Ka Wana series, which is part of the Pihana Na Mamo Native Hawaiian Education Program.

The Orator's Education: Books 1-2

The Orator's Education: Books 1-2
Author: Quintilian
Publisher:
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2001
Genre: Education
ISBN:

A central work in the history of rhetoric. Quintilian, born in Spain about AD 35, became a widely known and highly successful teacher of rhetoric in Rome. The Orator's Education (Institutio Oratoria), a comprehensive training program in twelve books, draws on his own rich experience. It is a work of enduring importance, not only for its insights on oratory, but for the picture it paints of education and social attitudes in the Roman world. Quintilian offers both general and specific advice. He gives guidelines for proper schooling (beginning with the young boy); analyzes the structure of speeches; recommends devices that will engage listeners and appeal to their emotions; reviews a wide range of Greek and Latin authors of use to the orator; and counsels on memory, delivery, and gestures. Donald Russell's five-volume Loeb Classical Library edition of The Orator's Education, which replaces an eighty-year-old translation by H. E. Butler, provides a text and facing translation that are fully up to date in light of current scholarship and well tuned to today's manner of expression. Russell also provides unusually rich explanatory notes, which enable full appreciation of this central work in the history of rhetoric.

Quintilian on the Teaching of Speaking and Writing

Quintilian on the Teaching of Speaking and Writing
Author: James J. Murphy
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2015-12-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0809334410

Quintilian on the Teaching of Speaking and Writing, edited by James J. Murphy and Cleve Wiese, offers scholars and students insights into the pedagogies of Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (ca. 35–ca. 95 CE), one of Rome’s most famous teachers of rhetoric. Providing translations of three key sections from Quintilian’s important and influential Institutio oratoria (Education of the Orator), this volume outlines the systematic educational processes that Quintilian inherited from the Greeks, foregrounding his rationale for a rhetorical education on the interrelationship between reading, speaking, listening, and writing, and emphasizing the blending of moral purpose and artistic skill. Translated here, Books One, Two, and Ten of the Institutio oratoria offer the essence of Quintilian’s holistic rhetorical educational plan that ranges from early interplay between written and spoken language to later honing of facilitas, the readiness to use language in any situation. Along with these translations, this new edition of Quintilian on the Teaching of Speaking and Writing contains an expanded scholarly introduction with an enhanced theoretical and historical section, an expanded discussion of teaching methods, and a new analytic guide directing the reader to a closer examination of the translations themselves. A contemporary approach to one of the most influential educational works in the history of Western culture, Quintilian on the Teaching of Speaking and Writing provides access not only to translations of key sections of Quintilian’s educational program but also a robust contemporary framework for the training of humane and effective citizens through the teaching of speaking and writing.

De Oratore

De Oratore
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1904
Genre: Oratory, Ancient
ISBN:

Community and Communication

Community and Communication
Author: Catherine Steel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2013
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0199641897

This title brings together contributions which rethink the role of public speech in the Roman Republic. With careful attention to a range of evidence, it shines a light on orators and considers the oratory of diplomatic exchanges and impromptu heckling and repartee alongside the familiar genres of forensic and political speech.