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Memoria e oblio in Quintiliano

In: Mario Capasso (a cura di), Quattro incontri sulla Cultura Classica. Dal bimillenario della morte di Augusto all’insegnamento delle lingue classiche, Lecce, Pensa Multimedia, 2019, 469-484

The topic of my paper is memory and oblivion in the literary field, as it appears in the work of Quintilian and, in particular, in the tenth book of his Institutio oratoria. After some general considerations, I focus on the comparison between the Roman writer and his Greek predecessor, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, about the construction of a shared literary memory in order thereby to identify what are the motivations and the discursive strategies Quintilian uses in the devel- opment of this dynamic process between memory and oblivion.