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The Declamations of Calpurnius Flaccus
Text, Translation, and Commentary by L.A. Sussman
Series: - Mnemosyne, Supplements, Volume: 133
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The excerpts from the Declamations of Calpurnius Flaccus (2nd century A.D.) are one of our major sources of knowledge concerning controversiae, model court speeches on fictitious themes. These formed the focus of Roman higher education and therefore had an enormous effect on Latin literary style and content from the late Republic on. They also contain important indirect evidence for contemporary social history. This book provides a general introduction to the work, a new Latin text, plus the first English translation and only full modern commentary. The latter discusses the legal background and origins of the cases, points at issue, textual problems, and matters of Latin style. The volume will therefore be of interest to students of classical rhetoric, education, history, and philology.
Lewis A. Sussman, Ph.D. (1969) in Classics, University of North Carolina, is Chairman of Classics at the University of Florida. He has published extensively on Roman declamation and rhetoric, including The Elder Seneca (Brill, 1978), and The Major Declamations Ascribed to Quintilian (1987).
'Sussman hat mit dieser Ausgabe...entscheidend dazu beigetragen, Verständnis für diese uns so fremde Form der kultivierten Unterhaltung zu wecken.'
Otta Wenskus, Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft, 1994.
'...[an] entertaining and useful text, translation, and commentaryâ¦'
Christina Kraus, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 1995.
'Lewis Sussman has served declamation well, with a book on the Elder Seneca and a pioneering translation of the Major Declamations that go under Quintilian's name.'
Michael Winterbottom, The Classical Review, 1995.
'...Sussman has made another valuable contribution to the study of declamation.'
Malcolm Heath, AJP, 1996.
'...un excellent ouvrageâ¦'
Lucienne Deschamps, Revue des Ãtudes Anciennes, 1996.
'...l'ouvrage a belle et élégante allure.'
Jules Wankenne, l'Antiquite Classique, 1996.
Otta Wenskus, Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft, 1994.
'...[an] entertaining and useful text, translation, and commentaryâ¦'
Christina Kraus, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 1995.
'Lewis Sussman has served declamation well, with a book on the Elder Seneca and a pioneering translation of the Major Declamations that go under Quintilian's name.'
Michael Winterbottom, The Classical Review, 1995.
'...Sussman has made another valuable contribution to the study of declamation.'
Malcolm Heath, AJP, 1996.
'...un excellent ouvrageâ¦'
Lucienne Deschamps, Revue des Ãtudes Anciennes, 1996.
'...l'ouvrage a belle et élégante allure.'
Jules Wankenne, l'Antiquite Classique, 1996.
Classical philologists (especially those interested in Latin prose style), students of the history of classical rhetoric and education, and ancient social historians.