id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-432 Quintilian - Wikipedia .html text/html 4335 561 60 The only extant work of Quintilian is a twelve-volume textbook on rhetoric entitled Institutio Oratoria (generally referred to in English as the Institutes of Oratory), written around AD 95. Institutio Oratoria (English: Institutes of Oratory) is a twelve-volume textbook on the theory and practice of rhetoric by Roman rhetorician Quintilian. In this work, Quintilian establishes that the perfect orator is first a good man, and after that he is a good speaker (Golden, Berquist, Coleman, and Sproule,[page needed]). Quintilian wrote Institutio Oratoria in the last years of Domitian's rule of the empire.[citation needed] He had worked alongside Domitian, but as he began to write more and ease away from Emperor Domitian's complete power, the emperor did not seem to mind as he was so impressed with Quintilian, he hired him to be a tutor for his family because of Quintilian's devotion to education. Gwynn, Aubrey S.J. Roman Education from Cicero to Quintilian. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-432.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-432.txt