Library / The 200 / Quintilian
No. 36 of 200 · Great Authors
100 AD
Major worksInstitutio Oratoria
The Roman teacher of rhetoric whose Institutio Oratoria set out a complete program for educating the ideal orator, from childhood schooling to the mastery of eloquence. More than a manual of speaking, it was a vision of education that joined moral character to skill, and it became one of the most influential works on teaching in the Western tradition.
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