Quintilian was born c 35 AD in Calagurris in Hispania.
19 Facts About Quintilian
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Quintilian evidently adopted Afer as his model and listened to him speak and plead cases in the law courts.
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Sometime after Afer's death, Quintilian returned to Hispania, possibly to practice law in the courts of his own province.
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Quintilian retired from teaching and pleading in 88 AD, during the reign of Domitian.
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Quintilian survived several emperors; the reigns of Vespasian and Titus were relatively peaceful, but that of Domitian was reputed to be difficult.
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Quintilian is believed to have died sometime around 100 AD, not having long survived Domitian, who was assassinated in 96.
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The only extant work of Quintilian is a twelve-volume textbook on rhetoric entitled Institutio Oratoria, written around 95 AD.
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Quintilian believed that a speech should stay genuine to a message that is "just and honorable".
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Quintilian wrote Institutio Oratoria in the last years of Domitian's rule of the Roman Empire.
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Quintilian cites many authors in the Institutio Oratoria before providing his own definition of rhetoric.
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Quintilian's rhetoric is chiefly defined by Cato the Elder's vir bonus, dicendi peritus, or "the good man skilled at speaking".
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Quintilian "insists that his ideal orator is no philosopher because the philosopher does not take as a duty participation in civic life; this is constitutive of Quintilian's ideal orator".
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Quintilian was attempting to modify the prevailing imperial style of oratory with his book, and Seneca was the principal figure in that style's tradition.
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Quintilian was more recent than many of the authors mentioned by Quintilian, but his reputation within the post-classical style necessitated both his mention and the criticism or back-handed praise that is given to him.
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Quintilian believed that "his style is for the most part corrupt and extremely dangerous because it abounds in attractive faults".
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The influence of Quintilian's works is seen in Luther's contemporary Erasmus of Rotterdam.
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In more recent times, Quintilian appears to have made another upward turn.
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Quintilian is frequently included in anthologies of literary criticism, and is an integral part of the history of education.
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Quintilian is believed to be the "earliest spokesman for a child-centered education", which is discussed above under his early childhood education theories.