COM 180 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Dialectic, Sophist, Tisias
6 Feb 2020
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Chapter 2 (and supplementary reading) - history of public speaking: greeks created idea of rhetoric - faculty of discovering in the particular case all the available means of persuasion , romans formalized the art. Epideitic (to praise or blame someone) speech - speech of praise - used in greece. Pericles: reign in athens (democracy) 461-429 bce, athens flourished -> center of western civilization, increase in people - increase in communication - increase in public speaking. Public speaker forums: rhetoric (oratory) taught in schools. Plato defined rhetoric as a philosophy rather than an art, an unnecessary tool. To quintilian, rhetoric was the good man speaking well (honeycutt, 2007). Rise of christianity - rhetoric is a pagan art. Rhetoric becomes one of the three liberal arts taught. Rise in art -> rise in literature -> schools to study greek and latin in their original form open in. The most important influences on petrarch were cicero and augustine.
