SPCM 201 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Rhetoric, Sophist, Hotep
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Exam 1 study guide rhetoric in western thought. Colorado state university: the story of the invention of rhetoric (i. e. what happened in syracuse?, about 480 bc syracuse was ruled by tyrannical families, they taxed unfairly and were soon overthrown. Weak man claimed that string mean picked on him. He lived in 5th century bc: who are the sophists and what is their approach to rhetoric, the sophists are a group of people from syracuse who practiced and taught rhetoric. They traveled to greece to educate wealthy people from athens about rhetoric. It was written by gorgias, it was about helen, well-known figure in greek mythology, who went to troy to marry a man, causing the trojan war. She was able to gain education and power because she was not from. Athens, she was from a northern city in greece and later moved to athens. She wrote for pericles and was his mistress.
