8 modules · 59 tutorials · taught by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus Simulacrum
The third art of the trivium, and the one Plato said was not an art at all. Quintilian leads, on the definition his whole twelve-book education is built to defend: the orator is a good man skilled in speaking, and the goodness is not decorative. Eight modules across the five canons — invention, arrangement, style, memory and delivery — with the charge against the art put at full strength before any technique is taught. Delivery is treated as a canon rather than an afterthought, and exercises are spoken where speech is what is being taught.
Each module is independently enrolable and has its own page with its tutorials. Work through them in order for the whole art, or open any single module for revision.
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Seven sittings on the first canon and on what the art is for. You
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Eight sittings. You begin by arranging your own Module 1 arguments
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Eight sittings. You begin with a fable, the smallest thing that is a
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Eight sittings. You begin by taking a passage of genuinely fine prose
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Eight sittings. You begin by being given flat prose to improve with
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Six sittings. You begin by trying to deliver something you know well
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Seven sittings. You begin with one sentence delivered with the stress
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Seven sittings. You begin by finding three places in your own material
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