... of the construction, goals, and models of the Institutio, and to show how didactic authority is created. 1ancient rhetorical theory Latin didactics authorial persona persuasiveness of didactic prose sophistication of Latin prose reception of Cicero reception of Seneca the Younger corrupt...

... in research on the sophistication of Latin prose, as opposed to poetry.23 Reading Quintilian: Didactic Authority in the Institutio oratoria. Laura Loporcaro, Oxford University Press. © Laura Loporcaro 2025. DOI: 10.1093/9780198911531.003.0001 22 Bloomer 2011, 39 rightly remarks that girls received some...

...This chapter presents some of the trends observable in the scanty evidence for early Latin prose that deserve scrutiny and may perhaps shed some light on the development of the classical patterns. Comparison with the Sabellian languages may also be instructive in allowing the Italic background...

... in the Metamorphoses. The chapter also argues that traditional views about poetic elements in the novel as evidence of post-classical Latinity can be superseded by a more positive and contextualized approach which opens up new perspectives on Apuleius’ place in the history of Latin prose. It then addresses...

...Twenty chapters from two often-dissociated areas of Latin studies, classical and medieval Latin, examine continuities and developments in the language of Latin prose from its emergence to the twelfth century. Language is not understood in a narrowly philological or linguistic sense...

... jars, sphinxes, idols, lamps, and amulets, found in Rome, other Christian cities, Istanbul, and Egypt. Kircher glosses each object with a learned explanation of its ancient significance. Without a Rosetta Stone, he translates the hieroglyphic inscriptions, character by character, into Latin prose...

... of Poissy Francis I king of France Colladon Nicolas Life of Calvin Beza Traité des reliques Calvin De clementia Seneca Praelectiones Calvin Calvin humanism style authorship french prose latin prose printing In the humanist republic of letters, print publication customarily required that its...

... of Auxerre curiositas Reg Lat 1572 Aesop Petronius Richard de Fournival blason Hugh of Fleury trichophilia hilaris hilaritudo multicolor us barbarism s Gallus elegiac poet Jean de Meun g Roman de la Rose Apuleius The Golden Ass Middle Ages Latin prose fiction In February 1944, the Allied...

... Desiderius Griselda as Psyche figure Decembrio Pier Candido Lactantius antiquarianism Doget John Geoffrey of Monmouth birth of Merlin Hardynge John incubi Leland John Merlin birth of Germany Grey William Perotti Niccolò Apuleius The Golden Ass Latin prose fiction humanists Petrarch...

... Horace dissitus inscitia ‘ignorance’ Lucian Benedictines drugs inducing bestiality Petronius Shakespeare William Egyptians Catullus Celtis Conrad Lelli Theodoro studia humanitatis Theodore Bishop of Treviso pyxis kisses argutula Hypnerotomachia Poliphili Apuleius The Golden Ass Latin...

... and Psyche Keats John Morris William Earthly Paradise Pater Walter Marius the Epicurean Shelley Percy Bysshe Apuleius The Golden Ass Milton Latin prose fiction ‘And all your notes,’ said Dorothea, whose heart had already burned within her on this subject so that now she could not help speaking...

... by publishing commentaries on Livy, Cicero, and Tacitus. Her focus on Latin prose is striking, since most women were at a disadvantage in that medium. Her ‘normal’ academic career, as lecturer, administrator, and, above all, as a published scholar sets are apart from her better known contemporaries...

.... The chapter then discusses the translation from Greek. Aspects of high-style Latin prose, namely neologism, archaism, Greek loanword, and poeticism, are described. Cicero genre Plautus prayers ‘primitivism’ of early Latin prose prose adamas sistrum thyrsus intertextuality language Latinity...

... Bibliothèque Royale 10054–6 Carolingian Renaissance Charlemagne Einhard Vita Caroli Magni Hippocrates Pindar as one of the Seven Sages Benedict St Carloman Lipsius Justus Joost or Josse Lips Paul the Deacon of Monte Cassino Peter of Pisa Pithou Pierre Tibullus Apuleius The Golden Ass Latin prose...

...This chapter explores Apuleian influences in the Renaissance. It is argued that controversy was the common denominator of Apuleian influences in the Renaissance. Platonists used Apuleius in their struggle with the Aristotelians; he became a focal point in the bitter debates over Latin prose-style...

... printing nuptiae corruptae gender reversal Ovide moralisé Sandys George Boccaccio Giovanni Fulgentius Fabius Planciades ‘the Mythographer’ Apuleius The Golden Ass William Adlington Latin prose fiction By 1566, Apuleius had already played a pivotal role in Italian humanism and had long been...

... hyperbaton non configurational languages Proto Indo European Romance typology Cato De agricultura On Agriculture Seneca the Elder Valerius Maximus modifiers chiasmus contrast premodifiers participles Latin language Latin prose word order Marouzeau noun phrase attributive adjective...

...This chapter conducts an investigation to look for a late 10th-century writer who had an interest in biography and hagiography, and whose Latin prose showed strong Frankish influences in vocabulary and hagiographical motifs, which is suggestive of an education either in Francia or at the hands...

... of didactic prose sophistication of Latin prose linear reading This book has embraced a holistic reading of the Institutio. Rather than treating the text selectively by pulling out circumscribed passages for the analysis of single topics, as scholars have often done in a fruitful...

... François Aristotle daemones Hippocrates Justinian Apuleia The Golden Ass Latin prose fiction George Gascoigne Ben Jonson One of the earliest and most interesting responses to Apuleius in English is provided by George Gascoigne (1534/5–77). Gascoigne's A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres...