Quintilian biography of michaels

1st century Hispanic-born Roman educator and rhetorician

Not to be confused with Quintillion or Quintillians.

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Latin:[kᶣiːn.tɪ.li.ˈaː.nʊs];^[1]c.

35 – c. 100 AD) was a Romaneducator and rhetorician born in Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissancewriting. In English translation, he is usually referred to as Quintilian (), although the alternate spellings of Quintillian and Quinctilian are occasionally seen, the latter in older texts.

Quintilian biography of michaels

Life

Quintilian was born c. 35 AD in Calagurris (Calahorra, La Rioja) in Hispania. His father, a well-educated man, sent him to Rome to study rhetoric early in the reign of Nero. While there, he cultivated a relationship with Domitius Afer, who died in 59.

"It had always been the custom … for young men with ambitions in public life to fix upon some older model of their ambition … and regard him as a mentor". Quintilian evidently adopted Afer