Institutio Oratoria or On the Education of an Orator, volume 1: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Institutio Oratoria or On the Education of an Orator, volume 1, credited to Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Institutio Oratoria or On the Education of an Orator, volume 1, by Quintilian. Read by Leni. Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was of Spanish origin, being born about 35 A.D. at Calagurris. At Rome he met with great success as a teacher and was the first rhetorician to set up a genuine public school and to receive a salary from the State. He left behind him a treatise "On the causes of the decadence of Roman oratory" (De causis corruptae eloquentiae), some speeches and his magnum opus, the only one to survive to our days. His Institutio Oratoria, despite the fact that much of it is highly technical, has still much that is of interest today, even for those who care little for the history of rhetoric. (Summary adapted from the translator's preface) This first volume covers books 1 to 3.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Institutio Oratoria or On the Education of an Orator, volume 1
• Author credits: Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 27
• Listed recording duration: 9:33:39

Catalogue topics

• classics
• Latin literature
• Rhetoric
• Oratory
• Education

Opening tracks: first 24 of 27

1. 00 - Translator's Introduction — 5:01
2. 01 - Book 1, Letter and Preface — 17:50
3. 02 - Book 1, Chapter 1 — 21:46
4. 03 - Book 1, Chapter 2 — 17:35
5. 04 - Book 1, Chapter 3 — 8:29
6. 05 - Book 1, Chapter 4 — 18:40
7. 06 - Book 1, Chapter 5 — 39:28
8. 07 - Book 1, Chapter 6 — 26:30
9. 08 - Book 1, Chapters 7 to 9 — 25:39
10. 09 - Book 1, Chapter 10 — 23:59
11. 10 - Book 1, Chapters 11 and 12 — 17:22
12. 11 - Book 2, Chapters 1 to 3 — 19:52
13. 12 - Book 2, Chapter 4 — 24:24
14. 13 - Book 2, Chapters 5 to 7 — 18:28
15. 14 - Book 2, Chapters 8 to 11 — 19:42
16. 15 - Book 2, Chapters 12 and 13 — 15:10
17. 16 - Book 2, Chapters 14 and 15 — 21:29
18. 17 - Book 2, Chapter 16 — 8:31
19. 18 - Book 2, Chapter 17 — 22:19
20. 19 - Book 2, Chapters 18 to 21 — 22:54
21. 20 - Book 3, Chapters 1 to 3 — 22:00
22. 21 - Book 3, Chapters 4 and 5 — 18:57
23. 22 - Book 3, Chapter 6, part 1 — 32:18
24. 23 - Book 3, Chapter 6, part 2 — 30:55

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