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