Papers on Quintilian and Ancient Declamation

Declamation - the practice of training young men to speak in public by setting them to compose and deliver speeches on fictional legal cases - was central to the Greek and Roman educational systems over many centuries and has been the subject of a recent explosion of scholarly interest. The work of Michael Winterbottom has been seminal in this regard, and the present volume brings together a broad selection of his scholarly articles and reviews published since 1964, creating an authoritative and accessible resource for this burgeoning field of study. The assembled papers focus on two related topics: the rhetorician Quintilian and ancient declamation in practice. Quintilian, who taught rhetoric at Rome in the second half of the first century AD, was the author of the Institutio Oratoria, a key text for Roman educational practice, rhetoric, and literary criticism. Subjects explored in the present collection range widely over not only the establishment and interpretation of the text and its literary and historical context, but also Quintilian's views on inspiration, morality, philosophy, and declamation, of which he was a practitioner. While the volume also offers detailed examinations of the texts and interpretations of a wide range of Latin and Greek authors of declamations, such as Seneca the Elder, Sopatros, and Ennodius, there is a particular focus on two collections wrongly attributed to Quintilian, the so-called 'Minor' and 'Major Declamations'. A major re-assessment of the manuscript tradition of the latter collection is published here for the first time.

1 - Quintilian and the vir bonus
2 - Problems in the Elder Seneca
3 - Quintilian and Rhetoric
4 - The Text of Sulpicius Victor
5 - Cicero and the Silver Age
6 - Schoolroom and Courtroom
7 - Declamation, Greek, and Latin
8 - Quintilian and Declamation
9 - Quintiliano e Virgilio
10 - Sopatros' Discussion of Questions
11 - Cicero and the Middle Style
12 - On Impulse
13 - Quintilian the Moralist
14 - An Emendation in Calpurnius Flaccus
15 - More Problems in Quintilian
16 - Ennodius, Dictio 21
17 - Something New out of Armenia
18 - Approaching the End: Quintilian 12.11
19 - Quintilian 12.11.11-2
20 - Declamation and Philosophy
21 - William of Malmesbury's Work on the Declamationes maiores
22 - The Editors of Calpurnius Flaccus
23 - The Words of the Master
24 - The Manuscript Tradition of [Quintilian]'s Major Declamations: A New Approach
1 - L. Håkanson, Textkritische Studien zu den grösseren pseudoquintilianischen Deklamationen, Gleerup (Lund, 1974)
2 - 1) J. Cousin (ed., tr., comm.), Quintilien. Institution oratoire, Tome I (Livre I), Les Belles Lettres (Paris, 1975). 2) J. Cousin, Recherches sur Quintilien, Les Belles Lettres (Paris, 1975)
3 - J. Cousin (ed., tr., comm.), Quintilien. Institution oratoire, Tome II (Livres II et III) - Tome III (Livres IV et V), Les Belles Lettres (Paris, 1976)
4 - J. Cousin (ed., tr., comm.), Quintilien. Institution oratoire, Tome IV (Livres VI et VII), Les Belles Lettres (Paris, 1977)
5 - S. F. Bonner, Education in Ancient Rome: From the Elder Cato to the Younger Pliny, Methuen & Co. (London, 1977)
6 - L. A. Sussman, The Elder Seneca, Brill (Leiden, 1978)
7 - J. Cousin (ed., tr., comm.), Quintilien. Institution oratoire, Tome V (Livres VIII et IX) - Tome VI (Livres X et XI), Les Belles Lettres (Paris, 1978; 1979)
8 - J. Cousin (ed., tr., comm.), Quintilien. Institution oratoire, Tome VII (Livre XII), Les Belles Lettres (Paris, 1980)
9 - L. Håkanson (ed.), L. Annaeus Seneca Maior. Oratorum et rhetorum sententiae, divisiones, colores, Teubner (Leipzig, 1989)
10 - L. A. Sussman (ed., tr., comm.), The Declamations of Calpurnius Flaccus, Brill (Leiden-New York-Cologne, 1994) (= Mnemosyne Suppl. 133)
11 - A. Stramaglia (ed., tr., comm.), [Quintiliano]. I gemelli malati: un caso di vivisezione (Declamazioni maggiori, 8), Edizioni dell Università degli Studi di Cassino (Cassino, 1999)
12 - M. Weissenberger (ed., tr., comm.), Sopatri Quaestionum divisio - Sopatros: Streitfälle. Gliederung und Ausarbeitung kontroverser Reden, Königshausen & Neumann (Würzburg, 2010)

Michael Winterbottom was born in Cheshire in 1934, and educated at Dulwich College and Pembroke College, Oxford. He spent most of his working life in Oxford, first as tutorial fellow in Classics at Worcester College, and later as Corpus Christi Professor of Latin. Since his retirement in 2001 he has been closely associated with Italian projects on Roman declamation, but he has continued to work also on Medieval Latin, which has always been a major interest. Antonio Stramaglia is Professor of Latin at the University of Bari. Francesca Romana Nocchi teaches Latin Language and Literature at Tuscia University, Viterbo. Giuseppe Russo teaches Latin Language and Literature at the University of Basilicata, Matera.