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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 ]
The exordium (/ ɛ ɡ ˈ z ɔːr d i ə m /; meaning "beginning" in Latin; from exordiri, meaning "to begin") was the introductory portion of an oration. The term is Latin and the Greek equivalent was termed the proem or prooimion. In the exordium, the orator states the purpose of the discourse. In doing this, they need to consider several things:
A modern reconstruction of the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, topic of the oration.. The Olympic Oration or On Man's First Conception of God (Ancient Greek: Ὀλυμπικὸς ἢ περὶ τῆς πρώτης τοῦ θεοῦ ἐννοίας, romanized: Olympikos ē peri tēs protēs tou theou ennoias, Oration 12 in modern corpora) is a speech delivered by Dio Chrysostom at the Olympic games ...
Orator is the continuation of a debate between Brutus and Cicero, which originated in his text Brutus, written earlier in the same year. The oldest partial text of Orator was recovered in the monastery of Mont Saint-Michel and now is located in the library at Avranches. [3] Thirty-seven existing manuscripts have been discovered from this text.
Usher believes that the essay is more similar to the style of Isocrates' school than it is to Demosthenes. [3] The essay is written for a fictional youth named Epicrates. [6] The author attempts to counsel Epicrates and the audience on what is best for a person. He maintains that through the study of philosophy a person will become a virtuous ...
In classical rhetoric since Corax of Syracuse, especially in Institutio Oratoria of Quintilian, the digression was a regular part of any oration or composition. After setting out the topic of a work and establishing the need for attention to be given, the speaker or author would digress to a seemingly disconnected subject before returning to a ...
David F. Swenson translated many of Kierkegaard's works into English and helped introduce him to the English reading public as early as 1916. His translation was published in 1941. He wrote a short introduction stating that "God is a person; His will is the everlasting distinction between righteousness and unrighteousness, good and evil; it is ...
The Harveian Oration is a yearly lecture held at the Royal College of Physicians of London. It was instituted in 1656 by William Harvey , discoverer of the systemic circulation.