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Cicero and the Mirage of the Tirocinium Fori
- American Journal of Philology
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 144, Number 2 (Whole Number 574), Summer 2023
- pp. 221-250
- 10.1353/ajp.2023.a907403
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Abstract
Abstract:
Assumptions about the tirocinium fori are based on claims by Joachim Marquardt that it was a form of training for young elite Romans at about the age of 16, that it lasted for one year, and that it consisted of mentorship by a distinguished elder. Though there is little evidence to support these claims, the theory of a tirocinium fori continues to influence discussions of oratory in the age of Cicero, where it gives a false picture of the process by which aspiring young orators made the transition from the school of rhetoric to practice in the courts.
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