Formation initiale et formation continue de l’orateur : les exercices rhétoriques dans les livres I, II et X de l’Institution oratoire de Quintilien
Résumé
Quintilian inherits the Greek tradition of progymnasmata, i.e. preliminary exercises to the actual teaching of rhetoric, and offers in books 1 and 2 of Institutio oratoria varied and progressive exercises for the young boy who leaves the grammaticus’ classroom to that of the rhetor, including the chreia and the thesis. But his originality in the both Greek and Latin rhetoric tradition is to add to this « initial training » a « continuing training » designed for the adult speaker and exposed in book X. The long road to the perfectus orator, whose accomplished art is manifested in improvisation, is made of different very progressive stages of learning the art of speech that include numerous and varied exercises, both written and oral.