Seneca the Elder Controversiae
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Seneca the Elder

Controversiae

oratory

A collection of rhetorical exercises — controversiae (mock legal cases) and suasoriae (deliberative speeches) — recording the declamations of the greatest speakers of the Augustan age. An invaluable source for Roman education and taste.

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  • Annaei Senecae oratorum et rhetorum sententiae divisiones colores controversiarum liber I.

    Further rhetorical controversies from the Roman schools, presenting moral dilemmas that challenged students to argue both sides of impossible cases.

    ~15,710 words
  • 2
    Book 2

    Further rhetorical controversies from the Roman schools, presenting moral dilemmas that challenged students to argue both sides of impossible cases.

    ~13,880 words
  • 7
    Book 7

    A collection of rhetorical exercises — imaginary legal cases argued by the greatest declaimers of the Augustan age, as remembered and critiqued by the elder Seneca.

    ~14,100 words
  • Sententiae divisiones colores controversiarum.

    A collection of rhetorical exercises — imaginary legal cases argued by the greatest declaimers of the Augustan age, as remembered and critiqued by the elder Seneca.

    ~11,190 words
  • Annaei Senecae oratorum et rhetorum sententiae divisiones colores controversiarum. liber X.

    A collection of rhetorical exercises — imaginary legal cases argued by the greatest declaimers of the Augustan age, as remembered and critiqued by the elder Seneca.

    ~10,520 words
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