In the Institutes, Quintilian organizes rhetorical study through the stages of education that an aspiring orator would undergo, beginning with the selection of a nurse. Aspects of elementary education (training in reading and writing, grammar, and literary criticism) are followed by preliminary rhetorical exercises in composition (the ) that include maxims and fables, narratives and comparisons, and finally full legal or political speeches. The delivery of speeches within the context of education or for entertainment purposes became widespread and popular under the term "declamation".
in the institutes quintilian organizes rhetorical study through the stages of education that an aspiring orator would undergo beginning with the selection of a nurse aspects of elementary education (training in reading and writing grammar and literary criticism) are followed by preliminary rhetorical exercises in composition (the ) that include maxims and fables narratives and comparisons and finally full legal or political speeches the delivery of speeches within the context of education or for entertainment purposes became widespread and popular under the term "declamation"