The Major Declamations, Volume I Reference (General) Lily Payen

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Little does she know she is walking straight into a trap

—JONATHON PURSSEY

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Jenny’s family felt impelled to leave their much-loved city and rebuild their lives in France

The Major Declamations, Volume I Reference (General) Lily PayenThe Major Declamations stand out for their unique contribution to our understanding of the final stage in Greco Roman rhetorical training. These exercises, in which students learned how to compose and deliver speeches on behalf of either the prosecution or the defense at imaginary trials, demonstrate how standard themes, recurring situations and arguments, and technical rules were to be handled by the aspiring orator. And what is more, they lay bare