SENECA THE ELDER

(H/B) SENECA THE ELDER: DECLAMATIONS (VOLUME I). CONTROVERSIAE (BOOKS 1-6)
Roman 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 deliberative 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. Towards the end of his long life (?55 BCE-?4...
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(H/B) SENECA THE ELDER: DECLAMATIONS (VOLUME II). CONTROVERSIAE (BOOKS 7-10 SUASORIAE. FRAGMENTS)
Roman 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 deliberative 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. Towards the end of his long life (?55ΒC-?AD ...
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