Quintilian

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Quintilian’s textbook on oratory offers a comprehensive training program in twelve books, drawing on the rhetorician’s own rich experience, while providing a rare insight into education and social attitudes in the Roman world. Delphi’s Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Latin texts.  This comprehensive eBook presents Quintilian’s complete extant works, with beautiful illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

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* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Quintilian’s life and works
* Features the complete extant works of Quintilian, in both English translation and the original Latin
* Concise introduction to INSTITUTES OF ORATORY
* Includes Butler’s translation previously appearing in the Loeb Classical Library edition of Quintilian
* Excellent formatting of the text
* Easily locate the sections you want to read with individual contents tables and section numbers
* Provides a special dual English and Latin text, allowing you to compare the sections paragraph by paragraph with Butler’s translation – ideal for students
* Features a bonus biography – discover Quintilian’s ancient world
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

CONTENTS:

The Translation
INSTITUTES OF ORATORY

The Latin Text
CONTENTS OF THE LATIN TEXT

The Dual Text
DUAL LATIN AND ENGLISH TEXT

The Biography
LIFE OF QUINTILIAN by H. E. Butler