Quintilian: Quick Facts

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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

Roman historian

Lucian

Greek writer

Poliziano

Italian poet and humanist

Richard Bentley

British scholar

Martin Opitz

German poet

Julius Caesar Scaliger

French scholar

Longinus

Greek literary critic

Corax

Greek writer

Cicero

Roman statesman, scholar, and writer

St. Ambrose

bishop of Milan

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

Greek orator and author

Marcus Cornelius Fronto

Roman orator

Quintus Hortensius Hortalus

Roman orator

Eumenius

Roman orator and teacher

Fabius Planciades Fulgentius

Latin author