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• A Brief history of Greece
• Rhetoric in 5th century Athens
• The Sophists
• Encomium of Helen
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• Mycenean Age (1300-800 BCE)
• Archaic Age (800-500 BCE)
• Classical Period (500-400 BCE)
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What makes 5th century Athens so ripe for the development of rhetoric?1. There was a tradition of persuasion in
Greek writing– Logos: word, thought, the content of
language, the thinking which language expressed, often implied logical reasoning
– Peitho: persuasion
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What makes 5th century Athens so ripe for the development of rhetoric?2. Speech offered social mobility as never
before• Hellenistic society was moving from an
aristocracy to a democracy• Greece saw a growth in the middle class • Speech gained power in the assembly and
money in the courts
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What makes 5th century Athens so ripe for the development of rhetoric?3. Greece had a culture of competition
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What makes 5th century Athens so ripe for the development of rhetoric?4. There was a significant rise in writing and
the analysis of language
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• Gorgias (485-380)
• Socrates (469-399)
• Isocrates (436-338)
• Plato (429-347)
• Aristotle (384-322)
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Who were the sophists?• They were foreigners
• They were cosmopolitan
• They often held flexible views about truth
• The focused on legal/political effectiveness
• They often claimed to teach arête
• They taught for money
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Aristophanes writes in the Clouds:
Bold, hasty, and wise, a concocter of lies,A rattler to speak, a dodger, a sneak A regular claw at the tables of law, A shuffler complete, well worn in deceitA supple, unprincipled, troublesome cheat;A hang-dog accurst, a bore with the worst,In the tricks of the jury-courts thoroughly versed
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Who were the sophists?• They were foreigners
• They were cosmopolitan
• They often held flexible views about truth
• The focused on legal/political effectiveness
• They often claimed to teach arête
• They taught for money
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Know your Sophists--Gorgias
• Concept of kairos attributed to him
• Had a deep belief in the magical/hypnotic effects of speech
• Used antithesis like it was going out of style
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Encomium of Helen
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Encomium of Helen
Helen went with Paris for one of 4 reasons – It was the will of the gods
– She was taken by force
– She was persuaded by speech
– She was overcome by love
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Encomium of Helen
Basic Structure– Intro (Prooemium)
– Narration of the facts (prothesis)
– Proof (pistis)
– Conclusion (Epilogue)