QUINTILIAN

(Marcus Fabius Quintilianus)kwĭntĭlˈyən, c.a.d. 35–c.a.d. 95, Roman rhetorician, b. Calagurris (now Calahorra), Spain. He taught rhetoric at Rome (Pliny the Younger and possibly Tacitus were among his pupils) and, as a public teacher, was endowed with a salary by Vespasian, who also made him consul. His Institutio oratoria, a complete survey of rhetoric in 12 books, begins with a discussion of the education of the young and proceeds with the various principles of rhetoric. The last book deals with the life of the orator outside his profession, e.g., his morality and his deportment. The 10th book contains a list of great writers with brief but acute criticisms of their important works. Quintilian's style is among the most beautiful in his period; he succeeds in demonstrating what he sets out to inculcate—the necessity of good taste and moderation in rhetoric. He had great influence in antiquity and in the Renaissance. A number of declamations formerly assigned to him were falsely attributed.

See study by G. Kennedy (1970); M. Winterbottom ed., The Minor Declamations Ascribed to Quintilian (1984).

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Roman Education from Cicero to Quintilian
Book by Aubrey Gwynn; Clarendon Press, 1926
Subjects: Cicero, Marcus Tullius--Contemporary Rome, Education--Rome, Latin Literature--History And Criticism, Quintilian
Possibly Quintilian had gone from Calagurris to Rome as...scholiast on Juvenals sixth satire names Quintilian as a pupil of Remmius Palaemon, 1...make us doubt this statement; but Quintilian himself, who quotes Palaemon, 2 does...
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Quintilian on the Teaching of Speaking and Writing: Translations from Books One, Two, and Ten of the Institutio Oratoria
Book by James J. Murphy; Southern Illinois University Press, 1987
Subjects: Oratory, Ancient, Rhetoric, Ancient
The Life of Quintilian Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was born...Younger; and the poet Martial. 11 Quintilian may have received his elementary education...for advanced education. The young Quintilian attached himself, as was the custom...
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Rhetoric and Pedagogy: Its History, Philosophy, and Practice: Essays in Honor of James J. Murphy
Book by Winifred Bryan Horner, Michael Leff; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1995
Subjects: Murphy, James Jerome, Rhetoric, Rhetoric--Study And Teaching
of Quintilian, not only maintaining that his source...accuses his opponent of misrepresenting Quintilian and misapplying his sources recommendations...unresolved. Careful consultation of Quintilian Institutio Oratoria , books 2 and 10...
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A History of Educational Thought
Book by Frederick Mayer; Charles E. Merrill Books, 1960
Subjects: Education--History
...their youths license for vice." 7 QUINTILIAN The Roman ideal of character and education is best represented by Quintilian. His emphasis on self-control...efforts by emperor Vespasian. To Quintilian, the only worth-while life is...
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Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: A History of the Rhetorical Theory from Saint Augustine to the Renaissance
Book by James J. Murphy; Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001
...various types of medieval references to Quintilian. The task of tracing this author through...medieval writers might have come upon Quintilian, : i. The complete text of the Institutio...Excerpts in florilegia. 4. Pseudo-Quintilian, Declamationes (also known as De causis...
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Moral Philosophy and Rhetoric in the Institutes: Quintilian on Honor and Expediency
Journal article by Arthur Walzer; Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 36, 2006
Subjects: Morality, Philosophers, Philosophy, Quintilianus, Marcus Fabius (C.35-c.100), Rhetoric, Writing
...Philosophy and Rhetoric in the Institutes: Quintilian on Honor and Expediency by Arthur Walzer...dominate the conventional presentation of Quintilian. First, we are encouraged to think of Quintilian as a politically disengaged schoolmaster...
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Dating the Educational Philosophy of Quintilian
Journal article by Philip Vassallo; et Cetera, Vol. 65, 2008
Subjects: Academic achievement, Education, Excellence, Learning, Literary canon, Methods, Philosophy, Speeches, Students, Teachers, Teaching
...Dating the Educational Philosophy of Quintilian by Philip Vassallo THE GENERAL SEMANTICS...millennia into the past at the work of Quintilian proves that some of our best contemporary...noise, "Been there, done that." Quintilian, as he is now better known, was born...
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Rhetorical Theory in Yale's Graduate Schools in the Late Nineteenth Century: the Example of William C. Robinson's Forensic Oratory
Journal article by Merrill D. Whitburn; Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 34, 2004
Subjects: Composition, Etymology, Public speaking, Rhetoric, Theory
...rhetoric with origins in Cicero and Quintilian to a "new" rhetoric with origins in...the classical rhetoricians Cicero and Quintilian. These works justify their direct appropriation...Homiletics express their direct reliance on Quintilian, could hardly be more scholarly, and...
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Re-dressing Classical Statuary: the Eighteenth-century "hand-in-waistcoat" Portrait
Journal article by Arline Meyer; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 77, 1995
Subjects: Art criticism
...heavily on the authority of Cicero and Quintilian, and they became the source of what...witty speeches. Bulwer most often cites Quintilian and Louis de Cressolles as his authorities...was so universally acknowledged that Quintilian even noted that Demosthenes reversed...
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"Anyone Can Be President": Figures of Speech, Cultural Forms, and Performance
Journal article by Chris Holcomb; Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 37, 2007
Subjects: Armed forces, Colbert, Stephen, Speech, State of the Union Address, Stewart, Jon
...many of us to the figures, invokes Quintilian and extrapolates from his comments on...restorative efforts focus on Aristotle, Quintilian, and Henry Peacham, all of whom suggest...locations within traditional rhetoric. Quintilian, for instance, inserts a lengthy treatment...
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Culture and the Light of Faith: Robert Louis Wilken Explores How Christianity Embraced and Transformed Classical Culture
Magazine article by Robert Louis Wilken; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, February 2011
Subjects: Christian art and symbolism--Forecasts and trends, Christian art--Forecasts and trends, Civilization, Classical--Religious aspects, Civilization, Greco-Roman--Religious aspects, Classical antiquities--Religious aspects, Classical civilization--Religious aspects
...Juvenal, Livy, Lucretius, Ovid, Pindar, Plato, Plautus, Quintilian, and Virgil. The Etymologies deals with grammar, rhetoric...Isidore, like the famous Roman grammarian and rhetorician Quintilian, recognized that grammar is "the science of correct speech...
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Descartes the Dreamer
Magazine article by Anthony Grafton; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 20, Autumn 1996
Subjects: Descartes, Rene--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Philosophers--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...formed by rhetoric, the ancient art of persuasive speech. Quintilian, the Roman author of the most systematic ancient manual of...the private, with "self-conviction." The orator, as Quintilian clearly said, had to convince himself in order to convince...
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STOP THE PRESSES : Start Your Own
Magazine article by Richard Alleva; Commonweal, Vol. 128, February 9, 2001
Subjects: Authors--Social aspects, Fame--Attitudes
...political activism vs. the life of study. Right now hes studying the works of Quintilian, the great first-century rhetorician. Any chance that Quintilian will be a hot topic in New York publishing offices soon? Roy neednt worry about...
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The Interconnection between Personal Liberation and Social Change: Coming out in the Classroom as a Transformative Act
Magazine article by Jeff Sapp; Multicultural Education, Vol. 9, Fall 2001
Subjects: Teacher education, Teaching
...students; and attention to individual differences in aptitutde and disposition. (Quintilian, 95 A. D.) I find irony in showing students this quote from the Quintilian in 95 A.D. because it says the exact same thing about curriculum that we...
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From West to East
Magazine article; Humanities, Vol. 31, May/Jun 2010
Subjects: Nonfiction, Theology
...first century B.C. and the first century A.D., such as the author of a Latin work on rhetoric called Ad Herennium, or Quintilian, who wrote about memory in his handbooks on oratory. These books gave detailed information on how to construct memory buildings...
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I CAME, I SAW, I SPOKE; [or How Anyone Can Deliver a Cracking Speech Nervelessly. with Some Help from Cicero, Churchill and Bob the Builder]
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), November 21, 2010
...of the art: Aristotle, Cicero and Quintilian. I assure you, if you follow their...Aristotle and Cicero, fewer have heard of Quintilian, yet his work was perhaps the most...and universal in its application. Quintilian was the first to really classify, configure...
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How to Improve Your Memory
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), June 2, 2011
Subjects: Foer, Joshua, Memory
...like the Japanese mnemonist who learned pi to more than 80,000 digits.) Mr. Foer says that Romans such as Cicero and Quintilian (from Hispania) codified the techniques of the journey method of memory training that has been resurrected by Tony Buzan...
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HOW SASHA AND MALIA DID THEIR BIT TO MAKE LANGUAGE HEROIC AGAIN; YOU TALKIN' TO ME? RHETORIC FROM ARISTOTLE TO OBAMA by Sam Leith (Profile Books, [Pounds Sterling]14.99)
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), October 13, 2011
Subjects: Books
...because of a weak first syllable." Digressio, here, is a great virtue, as Leith segues from internet hackers etiquette to Quintilian; from Sarah Palins yucky zeugmatic tricolons to Steve Jobss exemplary exordium at his Stanford address. The passage about...
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Diokno on Trial
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, August 8, 2007
...speeches, he underscored the two most important qualities needed for the times -- one is that he must be a good man, citing Quintilian who wrote about the need for honesty and integrity in 88 AD. The second is courage. No one will disagree when we say that...


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Quintilian
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
QUINTILIAN (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus)kwintil y n, c.a.d. 35 c.a.d...1970); M. Winterbottom ed., The Minor Declamations Ascribed to Quintilian (1984). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia...
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Martial
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the patronage of Titus , Domitian , and Pliny the Younger (see under Pliny the Elder ) and the friendship of Juvenal and Quintilian . He wrote more than 1,500 epigrams, most of which concern aspects of life in urban Rome, particularly its follies and...
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Latin Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...writers of prose; Suetonius exemplified the richness of historical and biographical writing under the Principate, while Quintilian brought classical literary criticism to its greatest development. In the 2d cent. Marcus Fronto distinguished himself as...
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Antiphilus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ANTIPHILUS antif il s, fl. 4th cent. b.c., Greek painter, of Alexandrian origin. Pliny and Quintilian wrote about his paintings of gryllos, a creature part man, part animal or bird. Pliny further stated that he painted portraits...
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Valla, Lorenzo
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...defense of classical Latin in which he contrasted the elegance of the ancient Romans works especially those of Cicero and Quintilian with the clumsiness of medieval and Church Latin. This enormously influential work ran to 60 editions before 1536. Vallas...
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