Classical Rhetoric

Aristotle's Rhetoric, Cicero's topics and seats (sedes), Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria, Rutilius Lupus's figures: the discipline of persuasion that named paradiastole, amplification and gradatio. Ramism is its sixteenth-century mutilation. In RENAISSANCE 3.0 the schoolroom source of the title figure and of the claim that rhetoric fights over the comparison class.

· 400 BCE– · recovered · influence 9/10