MPhil—ENGLISH—BHARATHIAR
UNIVERISTY
UNIT
I—BLAMIERS—SUMMARY
RHETORIC—QUINTILIAN [35-95 A.D]
·
Quintilian
was a Spaniard who came to Rome as a teacher of rhetoric.
·
He also
worked in the law courts and became the counsel under Emperor Domitian. Later
he became the tutor of the emperor’s grandnephews. He retired about the year 90
AD and composed his masterpiece—Institutio
Oratoria
