Declamations
Roman secondary education aimed principally at training future lawyers and politicians. Under the late Republic and the Empire, the main instrument was an import from Greece: declamation, the making of practice speeches on imaginary subjects. There were two types of such speeches: controversiae on law-court themes, suasoriae on deliberative topics. On both types a prime source of our knowledge is the work of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, a Spaniard from Cordoba, father of the distinguished philosopher. Towards the end of his long life (?55 Bc- ?Ad 40) he collected together ten books devoted to controversiae (some only preserved in excerpt) and at l…
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Weitere Autoren: Winterbottom, Michael (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-674-99511-6
- EAN: 9780674995116
- Produktnummer: 1591384
- Verlag: Harvard University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1974
- Seitenangabe: 656 S.
- Masse: H16.8 cm x B11.6 cm x D2.6 cm 358 g
- Abbildungen: Indexes
- Gewicht: 358
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