COMM1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sophist, Oeconomicus, Quintilian

• School: Boston College
• Department: Communication
• Course: COMM1010
• Professor: Peter Wells

Document Summary

People: bryant= single definition of rhetoric, ehninger= systems perspective of rhetoric. Chiasmus/antimetabole/antithesis; 3 parts to existence: protagoras= man is the measure of all things - no objective truth. The resolution of any argument comes from debates- withering attacks : apasia= funeral oraton - pericles. The only way a polis can make good decisions is through rhetoric: socrates= aristophanes (the clouds) - the study of the natural world, Xenophon memorabilla, oeconomicus, symposium: plato= gorgias & phaedrus & the arts and imitations of health .