Institutio Oratoria (On the Education of an Orator), volume 1

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity), Education, Performing Arts

Authors: Marcus Fabius Quintilianus In Year : 1920

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Institutio Oratoria (On the Education of an Orator), volume 1

00 - Translator's Introduction
01 - Book 1, Letter and Preface
02 - Book 1, Chapter 1
03 - Book 1, Chapter 2
04 - Book 1, Chapter 3
05 - Book 1, Chapter 4
06 - Book 1, Chapter 5
07 - Book 1, Chapter 6
08 - Book 1, Chapters 7 to 9
09 - Book 1, Chapter 10
10 - Book 1, Chapters 11 and 12
11 - Book 2, Chapters 1 to 3
12 - Book 2, Chapter 4
13 - Book 2, Chapters 5 to 7
14 - Book 2, Chapters 8 to 11
15 - Book 2, Chapters 12 and 13
16 - Book 2, Chapters 14 and 15
17 - Book 2, Chapter 16
18 - Book 2, Chapter 17
19 - Book 2, Chapters 18 to 21
20 - Book 3, Chapters 1 to 3
21 - Book 3, Chapters 4 and 5
22 - Book 3, Chapter 6, part 1
23 - Book 3, Chapter 6, part 2
24 - Book 3, Chapter 7
25 - Book 3, Chapter 8
26 - Book 3, Chapters 9 to 11

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was of Spanish origin, being born about 35 A.D. at Calagurris. At Rome he met with great success as a teacher and was the first rhetorician to set up a genuine public school and to receive a salary from the State. He left behind him a treatise "On the causes of the decadence of Roman oratory" (De causis corruptae eloquentiae), some speeches and his magnum opus, the only one to survive to our days. His Institutio Oratoria, despite the fact that much of it is highly technical, has still much that is of interest to‑day, even for those who care little for the history of rhetoric. (Summary adapted from the translator's preface) This first volume covers books 1 to 3.