International audienceReading the Institutio oratoria excerpt (VIII, 5) where Quintilian criticizes the way his contemporaries made use of the sententia, one can wonder whether the sententia, in Roman declamation, is nothing but a free and isolated ornament. According to Seneca the Elder, as we can see when he comments the sententiae he quotes in his Controversiae, the sententia should fit in with the whole speech, and especially with its color; he considers that the sententia has a pragmatic efficiency, because of its ethical function: as a matter of fact, the sententia shows the orator’s auctoritas.Les propos critiques de Quintilien (VIII, 5) sur l’usage de la sententia par ses contemporains mènent à se demander si la sententia, dans la d...
International audienceIn the Elder Seneca’s Controuersia 7, 2 (Popillius Ciceronis interfector), the...
From the Introduction: "This section opens with Amedeo Raschieri's study of the fragments of Republi...
On discussing the role and the utility of declamation in the rhetorical education, Quintilian single...
International audienceReading the Institutio oratoria excerpt (VIII, 5) where Quintilian criticizes ...
International audienceSententia is frequently compared, in ancient theoric treatises, with a weapon....
International audienceSententia is frequently compared, in ancient theoric treatises, with a weapon....
Delivery, the fifth part of rhetoric, has an uncertain history since its beginnings in antiquity. Qu...
The rhetorical art is the skill of speaking well, it is useful, it is an art, and it has virtus. The...
This paper seeks to shed light on Quintilian’s conception of the orator who combines moral integrity...
Quintilian begins the 30th chapter of the 11th Book claiming the rules of oratory declamation are id...
In the Institutio Oratoria of Quintilian we find a presentation of a theory of the virtues of eloque...
In this study I deal with the conception of "elocutio" as described and explained in the "Institutio...
Rhetoric is about elitism. A man’s ability to speak in a particular fash-ion signals that he belongs...
L'esame della sezione 'de ludis' della Pro Sestio mostra come gran parte di questo lungo excursus si...
Although Quintilian overpraises Menander (Inst. or. X, 1, 69-72 passim), his critiques of the author...
International audienceIn the Elder Seneca’s Controuersia 7, 2 (Popillius Ciceronis interfector), the...
From the Introduction: "This section opens with Amedeo Raschieri's study of the fragments of Republi...
On discussing the role and the utility of declamation in the rhetorical education, Quintilian single...
International audienceReading the Institutio oratoria excerpt (VIII, 5) where Quintilian criticizes ...
International audienceSententia is frequently compared, in ancient theoric treatises, with a weapon....
International audienceSententia is frequently compared, in ancient theoric treatises, with a weapon....
Delivery, the fifth part of rhetoric, has an uncertain history since its beginnings in antiquity. Qu...
The rhetorical art is the skill of speaking well, it is useful, it is an art, and it has virtus. The...
This paper seeks to shed light on Quintilian’s conception of the orator who combines moral integrity...
Quintilian begins the 30th chapter of the 11th Book claiming the rules of oratory declamation are id...
In the Institutio Oratoria of Quintilian we find a presentation of a theory of the virtues of eloque...
In this study I deal with the conception of "elocutio" as described and explained in the "Institutio...
Rhetoric is about elitism. A man’s ability to speak in a particular fash-ion signals that he belongs...
L'esame della sezione 'de ludis' della Pro Sestio mostra come gran parte di questo lungo excursus si...
Although Quintilian overpraises Menander (Inst. or. X, 1, 69-72 passim), his critiques of the author...
International audienceIn the Elder Seneca’s Controuersia 7, 2 (Popillius Ciceronis interfector), the...
From the Introduction: "This section opens with Amedeo Raschieri's study of the fragments of Republi...
On discussing the role and the utility of declamation in the rhetorical education, Quintilian single...