Reproducing Virtue: Quintilian, Imitation, and Rhetorical Education

Advances in the History of Rhetoric May 2016

Reproducing Virtue: Quintilian, Imitation, and Rhetorical Education

Robert E. Terrill

Abstract

ABSTRACT Quintilian does not offer an explicit mechanism that connects eloquence and ethics. This essay suggests that this omission is a consequence of the significant role that imitation plays in Quintilian’s pedagogy. This essay further suggests that the particular habits of mind that are cultivated through imitation are those that are associated with civic virtue, and it offers some ways that civic virtue might be cultivated in contemporary classrooms through a pedagogy that relies on imitation.

Journal: Advances in the History of Rhetoric
Published: 2016-05-03
DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2016.1182404
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Topics: rhetorical theory

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