Tag: Latin Literature

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  Quintilian’s Institutio oratoria: classical public relations

  Eloquence and speaking with facility need to be acquired by study and hard work.

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  Martianus Capella’s De nuptiis: a late antique bestseller in the ninth century

  The interest in Martianus's text was at a peak in the ninth century. Many copies were made, and the text was enriched with a thick layer of annotations (glosses): notes in tiny letters in the margins and in between the lines.

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  The Leiden Aratea

  Made at the court of Louis the Pious at Aachen, this codex bears witness of the great interest of the Carolingian emperors in classical antiquity