From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Content deleted Content added
|
|
|
||
| Line 8: | Line 8: | ||
|
| subject = [[Rhetoric]] |
| subject = [[Rhetoric]] |
||
|
| genre = Educational manual |
| genre = Educational manual |
||
|
| |
| = {{circa|67–68 AD}} |
||
|
| pages = 3 books (6 volumes) |
| pages = 3 books (6 volumes) |
||
|
| status = [[Lost literary work|Lost]] |
| status = [[Lost literary work|Lost]] |
||
Latest revision as of 19:13, 12 October 2025
Studiosus (English: The Student) was a three-book, six-volume educational manual on rhetoric written by the Roman author Pliny the Elder. The work is now a lost literary work.[1]
According to his nephew, Pliny the Younger, Studiosus was a comprehensive guide that detailed the training of an orator from early childhood. Pliny the Younger described the work’s purpose by stating: “The orator is trained from his very cradle and perfected.”[2]
Pliny wrote Studiosus during the final years of Emperor Nero‘s reign (c. 67–68 AD). His nephew noted that this was a time when “every kind of literary pursuit which was in the least independent or elevated had been rendered dangerous by servitude.”[2] During this period of political peril, Pliny focused his writing on subjects considered “safe,” such as grammar and rhetoric, avoiding the more dangerous work of contemporary history.[1] The work was followed by another linguistic text, Dubii sermonis (Of Doubtful Phraseology).
