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Chapter 3 - The Orator and the Poet in Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria

from Part I - Poetry in Rhetoric

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 August 2019

Irene Peirano Garrison
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Yale University, Connecticut
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This chapter focuses on the strategic evocation of the appropriate boundaries between rhetorical and poetic speech in Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria. If Quintilian’s exhortation to use poetic models judiciously in books 8 and 10 is read side by side with his elaborate deployment of poetic metaphors to represent both his work and that of the orator throughout the work, a far more complex picture emerges, one in which poetry is not simply a repository of sentences to be emulated but a source of cultural authority to be subsumed by the rhetorical medium.

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