Quintilian, Declamationes Maiores

Neil Bernstein (Ohio University)

Ed. by Sophia Papaioannou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.1.2: Ancient Roman Writing and Culture (Republic and Empire), -750-476.
Vol. editors: William John Dominik (University of Otago), Giacomo Fedeli (University of Exeter), Thomas Habinek (University of Southern California), Emily Kneebone (University of Nottingham), Elodie Paillard (University of Sydney), Sophia Papaioannou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Jula Wildberger (American University of Paris)

Domains

Rhetoric and Oratory

Dates

c.190- c.310

Places

Ancient Rome (Republic & Empire) (Country of Origin)

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The 19

Declamationes Maiores

form the only extant collection of developed Latin declamations from classical antiquity. (For a general introduction to Roman declamation, see article “

Declamationes Minores

”.) The collection was most likely composed by multiple authors from the end of the first through the beginning of the third centuries CE. Collection and publication likely took place in the late fourth century CE (Stramaglia 2006). The fully elaborated

Maiores

present a clearer sense of the literary goals of declamation than the briefer excerpts preserved in the Elder Seneca and Calpurnius Flaccus or the compressed arguments of the pseudo-Quintilianic

Declamationes Minores

. They make apparent the extensive overlap between the goals of declamation and those pursued in other genres of…

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Citation: Bernstein, Neil. "Declamationes Maiores". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 07 February 2013 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=34882, accessed 18 April 2024.]

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