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Chapter 4 - Dancing with Dialectic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2019

Christopher Whitton
Christopher Whitton
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University of Cambridge
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Summary

This chapter complements and complicates the findings of Chapter 3 with a focus on the dialectic inherent in imitatio. I establish some first principles with Epistles 9.19 (replying to Tacitus’ Agricola) and Epistles 3.7 (a dense nexus involving Herodotus, Sallust and Silius Italicus among others), then consider four Quintilianic liaisons: Epistles 6.2 (on excess in court speeches), 3.3 (on home schooling), 7.17 (on the psychological effect of having an audience) and 2.19 (on performance in oratory).

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Pliny the YoungerEpistlesLettersQuintilianInstitutio oratoriaintertextualityimitationdialectic
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The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose
Pliny's <I>Epistles</I>/Quintilian in Brief
 , pp. 108 - 133
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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