Quintilian wrote Institutio Oratoria in the last years of Domitian's rule of the Roman Empire. 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. The emperor was so impressed with Quintilian's devotion to education that he hired him to be a tutor for his family. Domitian was in the harshest period of his rule at that time and almost no one had the courage to speak any idea that was unlike his, but Quintilian did. He spoke as an orator in the tradition of Cicero, such as had not been seen since the beginning of the reign of Augustus. Rather than pleading cases, as an orator of his era might have been expected to do, he concentrated on speaking in more general terms about how sound rhetoric influences the education of the people.
Quintilian wrote Institutio Oratoria in the last years of Domitian's rule of the Roman Empire 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 The emperor was so impressed with Quintilian's devotion to education that he hired him to be a tutor for his family Domitian was in the harshest period of his rule at that time and almost no one had the courage to speak any idea that was unlike his but Quintilian did He spoke as an orator in the tradition of Cicero such as had not been seen since the beginning of the reign of Augustus Rather than pleading cases as an orator of his era might have been expected to do he concentrated on speaking in more general terms about how sound rhetoric influences the education of the people