Institutio Oratoria
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Quintilian
Quintilian
c. 35 CE–c. 100 CE · Rome
Rome's leading teacher of rhetoric, whose Institutio Oratoria is a complete program for the education of the orator.
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What they did here
Rome's leading teacher of rhetoric.
Rome in this era
Under the emperors (from Augustus, 27 BCE) Rome was the capital of an empire stretching from Britain to Syria, a city of perhaps a million people. Greek-speaking philosophers, physicians, rhetoricians and historians came to teach and write there; Domitian expelled philosophers from the city around 93-95 CE, and in the 3rd century Plotinus taught in Rome (244-270).
About Rome
Rome, on the Tiber in central Italy, grew from an Iron Age settlement into the capital of the Roman Republic and then of an empire that by the 1st century CE ruled the whole Mediterranean. Its Jewish community, attested from the 2nd century BCE, is among the oldest in Europe. Christian tradition holds that the apostles Peter and Paul died there, and the city became the seat of the popes. After the Western Empire ended in 476 it passed to Gothic kings, to Byzantium and then to papal rule as capital of the Papal States, until it became the capital of unified Italy in 1871. Vatican City, independent since 1929, lies within it.
In Rome at the same time
Seneca the Elder, Tiberius, Celsus, Valerius Maximus, Phaedrus, Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
Across the traditions, in Rome at the same time
In the same place & time
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Quintilian’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
Across the traditions
- Philo of Alexandria· Rome
- Peter the Apostle· Rome
- Paul the Apostle· Rome
- John the Apostle· Rome
- Aquila· Rome
- Priscilla· Rome
- Berenice· Rome
- Josephus· Rome
- Rabbi Yehoshua· Rome
- Rabban Gamliel of Yavneh· Rome
- Eleazar ben Azaryah· Rome
- Evaristus, Bishop of Rome· Rome
- Anacletus, Bishop of Rome· Rome
- Linus, Bishop of Rome· Rome
- Mark the Evangelist· Rome
- Luke the Evangelist· Rome
- Clement of Rome· Rome
In the same tradition
Seneca the Elder, Tiberius, Celsus, Valerius Maximus, Phaedrus, Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus, Curtius Rufus, Quintus, Pliny, the Elder, Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius, Petronius Arbiter, Musonius Rufus, Persius, Titus, Lucan, Martial, Valerius Flaccus, Gaius, Statius, P. Papinius (Publius Papinius)
The world in their lifetime
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Quintilian’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.