Seneca the Elder: Declamations, Volume I, Controversiae, Books 1-6. (Loeb Classical Library No. 463 by Michael Winterbottom, Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Seneca the Elder: Declamations, Volume I, Controversiae, Books 1-6. (Loeb Classical Library No. 463

Michael Winterbottom, Marcus Annaeus Seneca

560 pages first pub 1974 (editions)

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Roman secondary education aimed principally at training future lawyers and politicians. Under the late Republic and the Empire, the main instrument was an import from Greece: declamation, the making of practice speeches on imaginary subjects. Ther...

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