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OverviewRhetorical training was the central component of an elite Roman man's education. Controversiae (declamations), imaginary courtroom speeches in the character of a fictional or historical individual, were the most advanced exercises in the standard rhetorical curriculum. The Major Declamations is a collection of nineteen full-length Latin speeches attributed in antiquity to Quintilian but most likely composed by a group of authors in the second and third centuries CE. Though there has been a recent revival of interest in Greco-Roman declamation, the Major Declamations has generally been neglected. Ethics, Identity, and Community in Later Roman Declamation is the first book devoted exclusively to the Major Declamations and its reception in later European literature. It argues that the fictional scenarios of the Major Declamations enable the conceptual exploration of a variety of ethical and social issues. These include the construction of authority (Chapter 1), the verification of claims (Chapter 2), the conventions of reciprocity (Chapter 3), and the ethics of spectatorship (Chapter 4). Chapter 5 presents a study of the reception of the collection by the Renaissance humanist Juan Luis Vives and the eighteenth century scholar Lorenzo Patarol. A brief postscript surveys the use of declamatory exercises in the contemporary university and will inform current work in rhetorical studies. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Neil W. Bernstein (Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and World Religions, Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and World Religions, Ohio University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 16.00cm Weight: 0.451kg ISBN: 9780199964116ISBN 10: 0199964114 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 19 September 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ; Introduction: Constructing a Roman Sophistopolis ; Part I: Law, Ethics, and Community in Sophistopolis ; Chapter 1: Authority ; Chapter 2: Verification ; Chapter 3: Reciprocity ; Chapter 4: Visuality ; Part II: Responding to the Major Declamations ; Chapter 5: Vives' For The Stepmother and Patarol's Antilogiae ; Postscript: Declamation, Controversiality, and Contemporary Pedagogy ; Appendix 1: Text and translation of Lorenzo Patarol, Antilogia 1, For the Stepmother Against the Blind Son ; Appendix 2: Text and Translation of the Themes of the Major Declamations ; Bibliography ; IndexReviewsIn this engaging analysis, Bernstein shows how declamations--speeches about imaginary legal conflicts involving not only family members, friends, and neighbors, but also such unsavory characters as cannibals, prostitutes, and sorcerers--provided elite young Romans of the high empire with a creative space in which to deliberate real-world issues of authority, power relations, and ethical obligations. --Craig A. Gibson, University of Iowa Bernstein rescues the pseudo-Quintilianic Major Declamations from centuries of neglect, showing that they are far from the dull, mechanical (or ridiculously unreal) performances that they have long been thought to be. A huge contribution to the revival of scholarly interest in ancient education, rhetorical education in particular. --Jeffrey Walker, University of Texas at Austin Author InformationNeil W. Bernstein is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and World Religions at Ohio University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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