Ancient Rhetorical Excavations K-State Digs

Oratory as form of vocation discussed by Crassus, in Cicero’s On Oratory and Orators, is defined as a calling – a profession an individual e...

Word Count: 471 A term that nearly every individual uses on a day-to-day basis, and yet rarely, if ever, thinks about the meaning of the ter...

Plato discusses the use of form in Phaedrus pointing out each part of the form must play a specific function. He uses the analogy of the...

Word Count: 495 Phronesis (φρόνησις) is introduced by Aristotle in book II of The Rhetoric as one of the three things t...

Book 3 of Aristotle’s On Rhetoric begins his discussion of the both the overall importance of delivery and its individual elements. The w...

The most extensive depiction of nomos during our discussions of Classical rhetoric seems to have been spurred by the Jarratt text, whi...

Aristotle wrote in On Rhetoric about the role of the juror. “We must argue that the juror's oath "I w...

Eloquence “…but that no one could be an orator but a man of true wisdom; and that eloquence itself, as is consisted in the art of speaking w...

Word Count = 482 St. Augustine once said “The purpose of all wars...is peace [1] .” As wars, military campaigns and devastating genocide...