Book contents
- Persuasion, Rhetoric and Roman Poetry
- Persuasion, Rhetoric and Roman Poetry
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Poetry in Rhetoric
- Chapter 1 Poetry and Rhetoric and Poetry in Rhetoric
- Chapter 2 Poetry and the Poetic in Seneca the Elder’s Controuersiae and Suasoriae
- Chapter 3 The Orator and the Poet in Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria
- Part II Oratory in Epic
- Part III “Rhetoricizing” Poetry
- References
- Index Locorum
- General Index
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
Book contents
- Persuasion, Rhetoric and Roman Poetry
- Persuasion, Rhetoric and Roman Poetry
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Poetry in Rhetoric
- Chapter 1 Poetry and Rhetoric and Poetry in Rhetoric
- Chapter 2 Poetry and the Poetic in Seneca the Elder’s Controuersiae and Suasoriae
- Chapter 3 The Orator and the Poet in Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria
- Part II Oratory in Epic
- Part III “Rhetoricizing” Poetry
- References
- Index Locorum
- General Index
Summary
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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- Persuasion, Rhetoric and Roman Poetry , pp. 88 - 132Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019