CONTENTS

PREFACE

PART ONE. The Didactic Phase: Learning about Quintilian

Quintilian in the History of Western Education

The Concept of “School”

Who Was Quintilian?

His Institutio oratoria (circa A.D. 95)

What to Look for in Reading Quintilian

Books One and Two: Early Teaching Methods

Book Ten: Adult Self-Education Methods

Quintilian in the Modern Classroom

Quintilian’s Influence

Current Views of Quintilian

Notes

PART TWO. The Inductive Phase: Learning from Quintilian

An Outline of Quintilian’s Teaching Methods

A Dozen Questions for Quintilian at the Classroom Door

Thirty Quintilian One-Liners for Discussion and Debate

Fifty-Five Questions for Quintilian

A NOTE ON THE TEXT

ON THE EARLY EDUCATION OF THE CITIZEN-ORATOR
Books One and Two of the Institutio oratoria

Quintilian to Trypho, Wishing Health

Preface, Addressed to Marcellus Victorius

BOOK I

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

BOOK II

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

ON THE ADULT EDUCATION OF THE CITIZEN-ORATOR: Book Ten of the Institutio oratoria

BOOK X

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

APPENDIX: Editions and Translations of the Institutio oratoria

SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING

INDEX