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Writing And Imitation: Greek Education In The Greco-Roman World, Rubén R. Dupertuis
Writing And Imitation: Greek Education In The Greco-Roman World, Rubén R. Dupertuis
Ruben R Dupertuis
The imitation of a handful of accepted literary models lies at the core of the Greco-Roman educational process throughout all of its stages. While at the more advanced levels the relationship to models became more nuanced, the underlying principle remained the imitation of those authors who had achieved greatness. Quintilian explains the rationale as follows:
For there can be no doubt that in art no small portion of our task lies in imitation, since although invention came first and is all-important, it is expedient to imitate whatever has been invented with success. And it is a universal rule of life …