The Major Declamations, Volume I, Hardback

The Major Declamations, attributed to Quintilian in antiquity, exemplify the final stage of Greco-Roman rhetorical training, in which students delivered speeches for the prosecution and defense at imaginary trials. A wide variety of fascinating ethical, social, and legal details animate the fictional world conjured up by these oratorical exercises.

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Author(s): Quintilian
• Translator: Michael Winterbottom
• Number of pages: 400
• Collection: Loeb Classical Library
• Publication date: 2021
• Dimensions: 115 x 169 x 28
• Cover type: Hardback
• Editor(s): Antonio Stramaglia