Lu Xing Associate Professor in the Department of Communications at DePaul University and the author of Rhetoric in Ancient China: Fifth to Third Century B.C.E.: A Comparison with Classical Greek Rhetoric, Lu has also published many journal articles and book…
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Week 2 — More Classical Greek and Roman Rhetoric
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Aristotle As mentioned already, rhetoric itself was the subject of much debate in classical Greece, with the Sophists on one side and Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle on the other, though they could arguably be classed as Sophists as well. Like…
Week 1 — Classical Rhetoric, Greek and Roman.
by Kim De Vries • • 3 Comments
Isocrates Born in 436 BCE, Isocrates was one of the most influential rhetors of his time, and actually studied with Gorgias and possibly Plato as well. He was concerned with concrete rhetorical problems in which one had to reach a…