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Ancient rhetoric and poetic

Note 27 — Chapter IV · THE TEACHING OF RHETORIC

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The best edition is Sénèque le rhéteur, controverses et suasoires, traduction nouvelle (with expository introduction), texte revu (in fine print at the bottom of each page), Henri Bornecque (Lille), 2 volumes, Paris (Garnier), 1902.

The best discussion is also by Bornecque, Les déclamations et les déclamateurs d’après Sénèque le père, Travaux et mémoires de l’Université de Lille, nouvelle série, I. Droit, Lettres—fascicule 1, Lille, au siège de l’Université, 1902 (bibliography, index of authors cited other than Seneca, catalogue raisonné of declamatores).

Incidental and more general discussion will be found in standard treatises on Roman literature of the Empire, in G. Boissier’s La fin du paganisme, and in his Tacite, pages 200-240.

Peterson’s translation of the Dialogus of Tacitus is published in the Loeb Classical Library.

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