Latin 520

Schooling the Emperor: Quintilian, Pliny, and Tacitus

 

 

Syllabus

 

Gowing's Thinkpad

 

Paper Instructions and Guidelines

 

PDF of Panegyricus (Radice's Loeb)

 

'Conference' Schedule

 

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'

Weekly Assignments

Week 1 (30 March-3 April)

Week 2 (4-10 April)

 

Week 3 (11-17 April)

 

Week 4 (18-25 April)

 

Week 5 (26 April - 1 May)

 

Week 6 (2-8 May)

 

Week 7 (9-15 May)

 

Week 8 (16-22 May)

 

Week 9 (23-29 May)

 

Week 10 (30 May-June 3)

Secondary Readings (when possible, I'll post either links to or scans of various secondary readings)

López (from the Companion to Roman Rhetoric)

Kennedy ('An Estimate of Quintilian')

Fantham ('Latin Criticism')

Yates (Chap. 1, The Art of Memory)

Connolly The State of Speech, pp. 254-73)

Brink 'Quintilian's De causis corruptae eloquentiae...'

Roche and Innes articles