Editing Quintilian (section)

===''Institutio Oratoria''===
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[[File:Quintilian, Institutio oratoria ed. Burman (Leiden 1720), frontispiece.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|[[Book frontispiece|Frontispiece]] of a 1720 Dutch edition of the ''Institutio Oratoria'', showing Quintilian teaching rhetoric]]

''Institutio Oratoria'' (English: ''Institutes of Oratory'') is a twelve-volume textbook on the theory and practice of [[rhetoric]] by Roman rhetorician Quintilian. It was written around year 95 AD. The work deals also with the foundational education and development of [[orator]]s. In this work, Quintilian establishes that the perfect orator is first a good man, and after that he is a good speaker.{{r|GoldenETAL2011}} He also believed that a speech should stay genuine to a message that is "just and honorable".{{r|GoldenETAL2011}} This came to be known as his ''good man theory'', embracing the message that if one cannot be genuinely good, then one cannot be a good speaker for the people. This theory also revolves around being of service to the people. He asserts that a good man is one who works for the good of the people and the prosperity of society.

Quintilian wrote ''Institutio Oratoria'' in the last years of [[Domitian]]'s rule of the [[Roman Empire]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2020}} He had worked alongside Domitian, but as he began to write more and ease away from Emperor Domitian's complete power, the emperor did not seem to mind. The emperor was so impressed with Quintilian's devotion to education that he hired him to be a tutor for his family. Domitian was in the harshest period of his rule at that time and almost no one had the courage to speak any idea that was unlike his, but Quintilian did.{{r|GideonND}} He spoke as an orator in the tradition of Cicero, such as had not been seen since the beginning of the reign of [[Augustus]].{{r|GideonND}} Rather than pleading cases, as an orator of his era might have been expected to do, he concentrated on speaking in more general terms about how sound rhetoric influences the education of the people.