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Roman Rhetoric
200BC-300AD
Borrowing, Practicing, Teaching
Three Leading Characters
Cicero “The Greatest Roman Orator (10643BC)
Quintilian “The Greatest Roman
Teacher” (35-100AD)
Longinus “On the Subline” (213-273AD)
Cicero
Many Sources
De Inventione
Thought Aristotle's notion of ethos
developed in the speech only was
inadequate.
Cicero’s 5 Rhetorical Canon
Inventio
Dispositio
Elocutio
Pronuntiatio
Memoria
The Systems
Stasis and Topics
Stasis--a stopping point (power of naming)
Fact -- is it?
Definition--what is it?
Value--good or bad?
Action--do?
Topics--common places (buildings, books,
movies)
Cicero’s De Oratore
Three purposes of speech
To teach
To delight
To persuade
Humor
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
The Good Man Speaking Well
Parts of a speech
Exordium-introduction
Narratio--facts
Confirmatio--proof
Confutatio-refutation
Peroratio-conclusion
Longinus
On the Sublime
Style--more than mere adornment
The power of aesthetics