Search results for "Rhetorician" - New World Encyclopedia
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- created and established as an authoritative rhetorician. ... of the City of Ladies: A Medieval Rhetorician and Her Rhetoric" ...13 KB (2,108 words) - 21:12, 10 December 2023
- Gaius Marius Victorinus (fourth century C.E.), Roman grammarian, rhetorician and Neoplatonic philosopher, was a teacher of rhetoric in Rome until ...7 KB (1,028 words) - 03:46, 18 April 2024
- beheld the god in person,” while the Greek rhetorician and philosopher Dio Chrysostom wrote that a single glimpse of the statue would make a man forget ...7 KB (1,101 words) - 04:40, 28 April 2023
- He began his studies under the rhetorician Gorgias. His only surviving works, Ajax and Odysseus, both demonstrate this rhetorical training. After ...8 KB (1,244 words) - 06:38, 31 July 2023
- trained as a poet. Lucan was trained as a rhetorician, and he first impressed the Roman literary public by his skill in argument and rhetoric. Lucan ...9 KB (1,450 words) - 04:18, 4 November 2022
- of the grammarian Remmius Palaemon and the rhetorician Verginius Flaccus. When he was sixteen, the Stoic philosopher L. Annaeus Cornutus became ...9 KB (1,391 words) - 00:44, 24 November 2022
- he spent twelve years as a pupil of Theon, a rhetorician, and later as a professor of rhetoric. He then turned to philosophy and science, and studied ...10 KB (1,407 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
- wrote some works in imitation of the rhetorician Gorgias. Diogenes also reports that Aeschines was accused on several occasions of plagiarism; ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 05:49, 16 June 2023
- Among further names proposed, are Hermagoras (a rhetorician who lived ... A Byzantine rhetorician makes obscure references to what may be Longinus’ ...20 KB (2,950 words) - 21:04, 3 November 2022
- ) was a woman rhetorician and philosopher in ancient Greece, famous ... Her reputation as a philosopher and rhetorician is mostly anecdotal, as ...30 KB (4,572 words) - 04:50, 18 August 2023
- Lorenzo (or Laurentius) Valla (c. 1406 - August 1, 1457) was an Italian humanist, rhetorician, classical scholar, reformer, and educator. He ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 02:43, 4 November 2022
- to Protagoras's statement that a good rhetorician was able to make the weaker argument seem the stronger; a statement seen as one of the key ...16 KB (2,554 words) - 06:29, 12 August 2023
- Dryden, and Pope, and became an able writer and rhetorician. One of her brothers was the noted patriot and lawyer James Otis, Jr., who is credited with ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 16:13, 9 November 2022
- Fronto (c. 95 – 160), the distinguished rhetorician and orator, and with other thinkers such as the Athenian Herodes Atticus, and Aelius Aristides ...16 KB (2,530 words) - 03:10, 6 November 2022
- Marcus (Lucius) Annaeus Seneca, a wealthy rhetorician known as Seneca the Elder. Seneca's older brother, Gallio, became proconsul at Achaea (where ...18 KB (2,996 words) - 09:45, 26 January 2023
- According to the Athenian rhetorician Isocrates, the greatest gifts that Demeter gave were cereal, which set humans apart from wild animals, ...20 KB (3,054 words) - 09:24, 28 January 2024
- Marcus Antonius Creticus, the son of the great rhetorician Marcus Antonius Orator, who had been executed by Gaius Marius' supporters in 86 B ...28 KB (4,345 words) - 16:00, 6 November 2022
- attested in private letters between him and the rhetorician Libanius, Julian had Christianity forced on him as a child by his cousin Constantius II, who ...29 KB (4,399 words) - 21:10, 4 October 2022
- century Italian political philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist Giambattista Vico. Andy Lock and Tom Strong, Social Constructionism: ...34 KB (4,832 words) - 00:18, 16 February 2022
- [[Image:SF11652.jpg|thumb|250px|Theodatus, the rhetorician, shows Caesar the head of Pompey; etching, 1820]] Caesar arrived a short time afterward ...48 KB (7,762 words) - 08:50, 24 November 2022
