#GreekRhetoric

Reading Rhetorically

The five canons of rhetoric include invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery. Though their direct terminology evolved in the...

What constitutes a good speech? Apparently, a good speech seduces. I might not have pondered carefully enough, because on first reading,...

Parmenides A Pre-Socratic thinker, Parmenides offered a different type of rhetoric than the Sophists or the rhetoricians who would come...

Response: Lectures 1-3 Simultaneously a modern day component of education on writing and a historically rich journey seeking to...

Believing that Gorgias’s Encomium of Helen was done very poorly, Isocrates criticizes the prideful praise offered by Sophists and gives...

The very first sentence could easily be said about education today. I like education (or I would not be in a program that will lead to...

Isocrates speaks to defend himself from those inside and even outside of his profession who thought poorly of him. He address those who...

Here is a further discussion on the existence question. I suppose if it concerns something as critical as being, all great thinkers...

Definitions are impacted by perspective. Good and bad are different to different people and even to the same person at different times....

Gorgias writes with a simple purpose—to remove the disgrace from Helen. The praise he offers is personal entertainment for his mind, but...