The Loeb Classical Library: The Orator’s Education, Volume V: Books 11–12

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The Loeb Classical Library: The Orator’s Education, Volume V: Books 11–12Quintilian, born in Spain about AD 35, became a widely known and highly successful teacher of rhetoric in Rome. The Orators 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

Peter Thonemann teaches Greek and Roman history at Wadham College

This edition offers a contrasting pair of early orators

and there is a complete vocabulary for all the exercises

The enthralling tale of a powerful Greek goddess maligned in both myth and ancient history

Apollo and Daphne

while at the same time remaining close enough to the original to make comparison of the two a feasible proposition

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with practice exercises and answers

How has it been reimagined

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Their encounter sparks a passionate devotion that shapes the Persian boy's future - and deepens into a relationship that will sustain them both through assassination plots

Particularly memorable is the episode in which Penelope converses with her husband without suspecting his identity

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