Quintilian, << kwihn TIHL ee uhn >> (A.D. 35?-95?), was a Roman teacher of oratory. He is best known for his 12-volume Institutio Oratoria (often called The Training of an Orator), a manual for the training of public speakers from infancy to adulthood.
In the manual, Quintilian outlined a program that combined broad, general education with specialized training in rhetoric (the art of persuasion). He stressed that an orator must have both technical ability and moral worth. Quintilian also provided brief judgments regarding the value of many Greek and Latin writers in the training of young orators. Quintilian’s manual influenced many later literary figures, especially during the Renaissance.
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was born in Calagurris (now Calahorra), Spain. He was educated in Rome and became a great teacher of the art of rhetoric there in the A.D. 70’s and 80’s.
