In the ancient world Classical rhetoric and its practices raised
major ethical doubts and questions which have continued to affect -
even to prejudice - our judgment of orators and oratory today. One
of the key components of practical oratory was rational argument.
The six chapters in this volume examine different aspects of the
role of rational argument in Classical oratory and rhetoric and its
later tradition. Michael Gagarin discusses the role of
argumentation in the works of Antiphon, the earliest Greek orator
whose continuous texts survive. Christos Kremmydas analyses the
argumentative strategies in a political speech of Demosthenes, the
attack on the law of Leptines (Demosthenes 20). Two chapters then
focus on Cicero: Jakob Wisse discusses Cicero's self-conscious use
of logical structure and the ancient theory of the classification
of issues (so-called stasis theory) while Lynn Fotheringham
examines Cicero's habit of `having his cake and eating it', i.e.
running two incompatible lines of argument at the same time. Peter
Mack surveys the interrelation of rhetoric and dialectic in the
Renaissance, highlighting the importance of the latter and its
influence on styles of composition in English as well as Latin.
Finally Malcolm Heath describes a fascinating experiment in the
teaching of ancient rhetorical techniques to modern students,
showing that the study of ancient rhetoric can be not only an
interesting aspect of cultural history but also an effective means
of developing the `transferable skills' valued by today's
employers.
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