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The term's root has to do with display or show (deixis). It is a literary or rhetorical term from the Greek ἐπιδεικτικός "for show". [1] It is generally pronounced / ɛ p ɪ ˈ d aɪ k t ɪ k / or / ɛ p ɪ ˈ d eɪ k t ɪ k /. Another English form, now less common, is epidictic / ɛ p ɪ ˈ d ɪ k t ɪ k /.
Terministic screens – a term coined by Kenneth Burke to explain the way in which the world is viewed when taking languages and words into consideration. Tmesis – separating the parts of a compound word by a different word (or words) to create emphasis or other similar effects. Topos – a line or specific type of argument.
Aristotle's Rhetoric (Ancient Greek: Ῥητορική, romanized: Rhētorikḗ; Latin: Ars Rhetorica) [1] is an ancient Greek treatise on the art of persuasion, dating from the 4th century BCE. The English title varies: typically it is Rhetoric, the Art of Rhetoric, On Rhetoric, or a Treatise on Rhetoric.
Rhetor was the Greek term for "orator": A rhetor was a citizen who regularly addressed juries and political assemblies and who was thus understood to have gained some knowledge about public speaking in the process, though in general facility with language was often referred to as logôn techne, "skill with arguments" or "verbal artistry".
Two incomplete treatises on epideictic speeches have been preserved under his name, but it is generally considered that they cannot be by the same author. Bursian attributes the first to Menander, whom he placed in the 4th century, and the second to an anonymous rhetorician of Alexandria Troas, who possibly lived in the time of Diocletian.
The Cambridge Greek Lexicon is a dictionary of the Ancient Greek language published by Cambridge University Press in April 2021. First conceived in 1997 by the classicist John Chadwick, the lexicon was compiled by a team of researchers based in the Faculty of Classics in Cambridge consisting of the Hellenist James Diggle (Editor-in-Chief), Bruce Fraser, Patrick James, Oliver Simkin, Anne ...
The term eros dates back to seventh or eighth century B.C.E., when Hesiod's Theogony was published because it discusses the birth of the gods in mythology, including Eros.
King Leonidas of Sparta, in response to King Xerxes of Persia's demand that the Greek army lay down their arms before the Battle of Thermopylae. [23] μυστήριον τῆς πίστεως mustḗrion tês písteōs "mystery of faith", from I Timothy 3:9. Latinized as Mysterium Fidei is a Christian theological term.