The First “Textbook” of History of Ancient Literature from Quintilian
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https://doi.org/10.52340/gk13g115Keywords:
Quintilianus, translation, history of ancient literatureAbstract
Marcus Fabius Quintilianusus (35-96 AD) is one of the most interesting writer, teacher, orator and advocate of antiquity. His Institutio oratoria is a 12-volume book written in Latin, in which the author offers theoretical research and practical advice on raising a good orator, a good man in general, because, according to Quintilianus, it was impossible to be a good orator if you will not be a good person - vir bonus dicendi peritus (12,1,3). Quintilianus' work has not been translated into Georgian yet. He is not familiar for Georgian society, so we considered it expedient to translate the work in order to make Quintilianus' interesting tips and opinions available for Georgian readers interested in these issues, which have not lost their relevance even today. This passage can be considered, to some extent, one of the first "textbooks" in the history of ancient literature, as Quintilianus informs us about 110 Greek and Roman authors.
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