How Long to Read The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose

How Long Does it Take to Read The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose?

It takes the average reader 9 hours and 53 minutes to read The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose by Christopher Whitton

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Imitation was central to Roman culture, and a staple of Latin poetry. But it was also fundamental to prose. This book brings together two monuments of the High Empire, Quintilian's Institutio oratoria ('Training of the orator') and Pliny's Epistles, to reveal a spectacular project of textual and ethical imitation. As a young man Pliny had studied with Quintilian. In the Epistles he meticulously transforms and subsumes his teacher's masterpiece, together with poetry and prose ranging from Homer to Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus. In teasing apart Pliny's rich intertextual weave, this book reinterprets Quintilian through the eyes of one of his sharpest readers, radically reassesses the Epistles as a work of minute textual artistry, and makes a major intervention in scholarly debates on intertextuality, imitation and rhetorical culture at Rome. The result is a landmark study with far-reaching implications for how we read Latin literature.

How long is The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose?

The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose by Christopher Whitton is 577 pages long, and a total of 148,289 words.

This makes it 195% the length of the average book. It also has 181% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 13 hours and 30 minutes to read The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose aloud.

What Reading Level is The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose?

The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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