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Brutus is a work by Cicero that explains the history of Roman oratory, and Orator highlights the basic requirements needed to be the best orator. This is important because it helps scholars best estimate when De Optimo Genere Oratorum was written in accordance with these two texts.
Speech written by Cato calling for a war against Carthage. Cato the Elder 143 BCE [10] [11] De Domo Sua: On his House: Cicero discusses grief and sacrifice Cicero 57 BCE [12] [13] De Falsis Pugnis: On Falsified Battles: Speech written by Cato against general who sought triumphs for territories they had not conquered through war. Cato the Elder ...
The writings of Marcus Tullius Cicero constitute one of the most renowned collections of historical and philosophical work in all of classical antiquity. Cicero was a Roman politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, philosopher, and constitutionalist who lived during the years of 106–43 BC.
Cicero mentions the idea that Cato is overshadowed by other figures, but is still noteworthy. After Cato, new orators appeared in Rome such as Severius Galba. He also provides an example of how Galba was able to win over the court with an amazing, eloquent speech and that his people (in a court case) were freed from all charges. [3]
The consolatio literary tradition ("consolation" in English) is a broad literary genre encompassing various forms of consolatory speeches, essays, poems, and personal letters. consolatio works are united by their treatment of bereavement, by unique rhetorical structure and topoi, and by their use of universal themes to offer solace. [3]
Demosthenes' speeches were incorporated into the body of classical Greek literature that was preserved, catalogued and studied by scholars of the Hellenistic period. From then until the fourth century AD copies of his orations multiplied at a time when Demosthenes was deemed the most important writer in the rhetorical world and every serious ...
Bust of Xenophon, whom Dio identifies as the best author for statesmen to read.. The work opens with a short introduction (sections 1–4), congratulating the addressee on his decision to seek oratorical training despite his wealth and power, agreeing with him that such training is necessary for a statesman, and professing to be flattered to have been asked for advice.
He says rhetoric is arranged under three headings – “first of all, the power of the orator; secondly, the speech; thirdly, the subject of the speech.” [7] The orator's power consists of ideas and words, which must be “discovered and arranged.” “To discover” applies mostly to ideas and “to be eloquent” applies more to language. [8]