Latin 520
Schooling the Emperor: Quintilian, Pliny, and Tacitus
Paper Instructions and Guidelines
PDF of Panegyricus (Radice's Loeb)
Monday, June 1:
Anna: 'Sicut in cibis: the Rhetoric of Food in Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria'
Luo: Theories of Humor for Quintilian’s Orator and Horace’s Poet
Wednesday, June 3:
Emma: 'The Artifex and his Opus: Images of Oratory and Teaching in Quintilian'
Chad: 'The Misuse of Figured Speech: Cremutius Cordus and Curiatius Maternus'
Megan: 'On Reading Seneca in Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria 10.1'
Danny: 'Vir Bonus Fallendi Peritus: Quintilian's Morally Approved Deception in the Institutio and Tacitus' Dialogus'
López (from the Companion to Roman Rhetoric)
Kennedy ('An Estimate of Quintilian')
Yates (Chap. 1, The Art of Memory)
Connolly The State of Speech, pp. 254-73)
Brink 'Quintilian's De causis corruptae eloquentiae...'