The materia and the officia of rhetoric discussed in boox II of the Institutio oratoria originated from Cicero's theory but were used to build a new and complete educational model in which law and jurisprudence were valuated negatively. Quintilian, sketching the sources of law, avoided to mention jurisprudence, but also - for political opportunity - imperial constitutions and the decrees of the senate. In his polemics against jurists, the Flavian rhetor resticted law-making to the pars legalis and assigned more importance to iustitia, in order to deprive the iurisprudentes of the control of values. Moreover, he considered -at least some of them - just makers of cavillationes iuris.
Materia and officia of rhetorical teaching in Book II of the Institutio oratoria
QUERZOLI, Serena
2003
Abstract
The materia and the officia of rhetoric discussed in boox II of the Institutio oratoria originated from Cicero's theory but were used to build a new and complete educational model in which law and jurisprudence were valuated negatively. Quintilian, sketching the sources of law, avoided to mention jurisprudence, but also - for political opportunity - imperial constitutions and the decrees of the senate. In his polemics against jurists, the Flavian rhetor resticted law-making to the pars legalis and assigned more importance to iustitia, in order to deprive the iurisprudentes of the control of values. Moreover, he considered -at least some of them - just makers of cavillationes iuris.I documenti in SFERA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
