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Also Known As Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
Born 35 • Spain
Died After 96 • Rome • Italy
Notable Works “Institutio oratoria”
Movement / Style Silver Age
Subjects Of Study Ancient Greek literature • Latin literature • oratory • rhetoric
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Roman author
Tacitus
Tacitus
Roman historian
Lucian
Greek writer
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Poliziano
Italian poet and humanist
Richard Bentley, detail of an oil painting by James Thornhill, 1710; in Trinity College, Cambridge.
Richard Bentley
British scholar
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Julius Caesar Scaliger
French scholar
Longinus
Greek literary critic
Corax
Greek writer
Cicero
Cicero
Roman statesman, scholar, and writer
Gaius Asinius Pollio
Roman historian and orator
Magnus Felix Ennodius
Italian bishop and writer
Decimus Magnus Ausonius
Latin poet and rhetorician
Lucius Livius Andronicus
Roman author
Herodes Atticus, marble bust by an unknown artist; in the Louvre, Paris
Herodes Atticus
Greek orator and author
Marcus Cornelius Fronto
Roman orator
Eumenius
Roman orator and teacher
Quintus Hortensius Hortalus
Roman orator
Fabius Planciades Fulgentius
Latin author
Lucius Aelius Stilo Praeconinus
Roman scholar