LEADER 02510nam 2200385 450 001 996214870503316 005 20231108213120.0 010 $a0-674-99511-2 035 $a(CKB)3820000000012001 035 $a(NjHacI)993820000000012001 035 $a(EXLCZ)993820000000012001 100 $a20231108d1974 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDeclamations$hVolume II, Books 7-10$iSuasoriae. Fragments $eControversiae /$fLucius Annaeus Seneca, Michael Winterbottom 210 1$aCambridge, MA :$cHarvard University Press,$d1974. 215 $a1 online resource (656 pages) 225 1 $aLoeb classical library ;$vLCL464 330 $aRoman secondary education aimed principally at training future lawyers and politicians. Under the late Republic and the Empire, the main instrument was an import from Greece -- declamation, the making of practice-speeches on imaginary subjects. There were two types of such speeches: controversiae on law-court themes, suasoriae on delibertaive topics. On both types a prime source of our knowledge is the work of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, a Spaniard from Cordoba, father of the distinguished philosopher and stylist. Towards the end of his long life (?55 B.C. -? A.D. 40) he collected together under the title (it would seem) Oratorum et rhetorum sententiae, divisiones, colores, ten books devoted to controversiae (some only preserved in excerpt) and at least one (surviving) to suasoriae. These books contained his memories of the famous rhetorical teachers and practitioners of his day: their lines of argument, their methods of approach, their idiosyncracies, and above all their epigrams. The extracts from the disclaimers, though scrappy, throw invaluable light on the influences that coloured the styles of most pagan (and many Christian) writers of the Empire. Unity is provided by Seneca's own contribution, the lively prefaces, engaging anecdote about speakers, writers and politicians, the brisk criticism of declamatory excess. 410 0$aLoeb classical library ;$vLCL464. 517 $aDeclamations, Volume II 606 $aRhetoric, Ancient 615 0$aRhetoric, Ancient. 676 $a808.00938 700 $aSeneca$b Lucius Annaeus$07130 702 $aWinterbottom$b Michael 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996214870503316 996 $aDeclamations$93590171 997 $aUNISA