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Roman Rhetoric: Roman Rhetoric October 12
Slide2: Exams—getting there! Answer guides to be posted.
Read Hauser Chapter 11; we will clean up from today and move on
October 24—new deadline for turning in parts one and two of term project
Term Projects: Term Projects Lisa’s Example
Sources—newspapers and scholarly rhetoric sources—need a blend
defeasibility: defeasibility
Roman Rhetoric: Roman Rhetoric Roman Rhetoric 300 BC to 400 AD
Roman republic Roman empire
Senate “council of elders”
Rhetoric instruction CRUCIAL
achieve political success
conduct political debates
signal refinement and education
Demonstrating character was important
Taught Greek rhetoric and culture
Cicero: Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC-43 AD)
Orator/statesman
Union of intelligence and eloquence
Rhetoric as civilizing force that makes human social life possible.
De Inventione (87 BC)
Canons, Staseis, and Locus
Communes
Memory important--building
Cicero Continued: Cicero Continued De Oratore (55 BC)
Unity of Eloquence and Wisdom
Centrality of Audience
Importance of character—diff than Aris ethos
Rhetor as Educated Person
Rhetoric as Power
Cicero on Humor
Rhetoric and the Good Citizen: Rhetoric and the Good Citizen Moral rhetoric--Orator must be honorable person
Orator as good citizen using powers to benefit society
Quintilian: Quintilian Marcus Fabius Quintilian
(35-100 AD)
Most famous teacher
“good citizen speaking well”
Institutes of Oratory
“Cradle to grave” guide
Aims at production of perfect orator
Parts of Judicial Speech
Exordium—introduction
narratio—statement of facts
confirmatio—proof
confutatio—refutation of counterpoints
peroratio—conclusion
Second Sophistic: Second Sophistic Criticizing emperor punishable by death
Style eloquence flourishes
Slide11: Leonidas inspires his men to fight until death
Wounded Athenian soldiers ask their comrades to kill them
Pericles asks the Athenians to declare war on Sparta
In praise of baldness
Which side of a woman is the most pleasing, front or back?
Meet a Classmate: Meet a Classmate 1. How have you narrowed your topic? What are you focusing on? Why does this topic interest you?
2. What research have you done?
3. Set a goal for next week.