2008 NewFoundations The Educational Theory of Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus) Analyst: Paul O'Neill RETURN edited 5/14/08 Introduction: Quintilian is thought to have been born somewhere around 35-40 A. D. (Kennedy, 1969, p. 15) in Calagurris, now known as Calahorra, Spain. He studied in Rome, later becoming a teacher of oratory and rhetoric (Mayer, 1967, p. 101). His father had been an orator before him (Russell, 2001, p. 143, Book IX) but never was as prominent as his son would become. Quintilian's major work titled Institutio Oratoria The Orator's Education was a series of twelve books containing lessons involved with the form of rhetoric. In Book I Quintilian recommended that the orator's education in rhetoric begin as a young boy, in the tradition of the Greeks. Book II then dealt with the foundations of rhetoric, leading to the next nine books, in which the first five detailed 'Invention' and ended with "Elocution, with which was associated Memory and Delivery" ( Ibid. , p. 63, Book I). His final book depicted the orator in every facet of life from "his character, the principles of undertaking, preparing, and pleading cases, his style, the end of his active career and the studies he may undertake thereafter" ( | |
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