Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria

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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:book
gptkbp:alternativeName gptkb:Institutes_of_Oratory
gptkbp:author gptkb:Quintilian
gptkbp:contains pedagogical methods
advice on style and delivery
analysis of famous orators
discussion of literary criticism
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:Roman_Empire
gptkbp:dedicatedTo gptkb:Marcellus_Victorius
gptkbp:firstPublished 1470
gptkbp:fullTitle gptkb:Institutio_Oratoria
gptkbp:genre gptkb:rhetoric
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria
gptkbp:influenced Renaissance humanism
rhetorical education in the Middle Ages
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Aristotle
gptkb:Cicero
gptkb:Isocrates
gptkbp:locationOfComposition gptkb:Rome
gptkbp:mainTheme training of the orator from childhood to maturity
gptkbp:notableFor comprehensive treatment of rhetoric
discussion of the ideal orator
the good man skilled in speaking (vir bonus dicendi peritus)
emphasis on moral character
gptkbp:numberOfBooks 12
gptkbp:originalLanguage gptkb:Latin
gptkbp:preservedIn medieval manuscripts
gptkbp:publicationDate circa 95 CE
gptkbp:referencedIn gptkb:Petrarch
Erasmus
Renaissance educators
gptkbp:significance major source for classical rhetoric
gptkbp:structure 12 books
gptkbp:studiedIn classical studies
rhetoric courses
gptkbp:subject education
oratory
rhetorical theory
gptkbp:translatedInto gptkb:French
gptkb:German
gptkb:Italian
English
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Simonides
gptkb:Tacitus'_Dialogus_de_oratoribus
gptkb:Western_rhetorical_tradition
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6