Influence Work, Resistance, and Educational Life-Worlds: Quintilian’s [Marcus Fabius Quintilianus] (35-95 CE) Analysis of Roman Oratory as an Instructive Ethnohistorical Resource and Conceptual Precursor of Symbolic Interactionist Scholarship

Despite the striking affinities of classical Greek and Latin rhetoric with pragmatist/interactionist analysis situated negotiation reality its profound relevance for human group life more generally, few contemporary social scientists are aware exceptionally astute analyses persuasive inter­change developed by Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian.
 Having considered Aristotle (384-322 BCE) Cicero (106-43 in interactionist terms (Prus 2007a; 2010), present paper examines Quintilian’s (35-95 CE) contributions to study interchange specifically nature knowing acting generally.
 Focusing on education practices orators (rhetoricians), Quintilian (a practitioner as well a distinc­tively thorough instructor craft) provides one most sustained, systematic influence work resistance be found literature.
 Following an overview “ethnohistorical” account Roman oratory, this concludes draw­ing conceptual parallels between broader, transcontextual features symbolic scholarship (Mead 1934; Blumer 1969; Prus 1996; 1997; 1999; Grills 2003). This includes “generic processes” such as: acquiring perspectives, attending identity, being involved, doing activity, en­gaging interchange, developing relationships, experiencing emotionality, attaining linguistic fluency, partici­pating collective events. Offering great many departure points comparative analysis, ethnographic examinations process, is particularly instructive he addresses these related aspects knowing, acting, highly direct, articulate, detailed ways.
 Acknowledging conceptual, methodological, analytic The Institutio Oratoria interactionism, epilogue, Intellectual Precursor American Pragmatist Thought Interactionist Study Human Group Life, relative lack attention given pragmatists their intellectual progeny, importance maintaining sustained transhistorical focus interchange.