The Progymnasmata - Resources for Classical Writing

Nota bene: You will not ruin your child if you don't use the progymnasmata!  If you have the time and inclination, the progym may enhance your writing instruction.  If you don't, "regular" writing instruction is perfectly adequate, and you will still be giving your child a classical education.  Do not listen to those who feel the need to loudly proclaim the superiority of the progym or any other method or approach or curriculum if your children are learning. 

Books:

• On the Teaching of Speaking and Writing (Books One, Two, and Ten of the Institutio Oratoria - pre-rhetoric) - Quintilian

Teaching Materials:

• Composition in the Classical Tradition - Frank D'Angelo

• Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students - Sharon Crowley

• Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student - Edward P.J. Corbett

• Classical Composition from Jim Selby

• Classical Writing series

Websites:

• Aphthonius Progymnasmata

• Preliminary Exercises (Progymnasmata)

• The Forest of Rhetoric (Silva Rhetoricae)

• Rhetoric and Composition

• Rhetorical Theory

• Ancient Rhetoric: An Introduction

• Writing Assessment Services: Progymnasmata Outline

• The 14 Progymnasmata