Rhetoric in the general sense is the use of language in such a manner as to impress the listener/reader and influence them for or against a certain course of action. Aristotle’s rhetoric can be described as an attempt to transform oratory to an art. It was practised and highly esteemed among the Greeks from antiquity.
The creator of a systemic and scientific art of rhetoric is Aristotle, who in, Rhetoric, an ancient Geek treatise on the art of persuasion from the 4th century B.C, offers writer/ speaker a foundation from which to build their argument. The treatise shows the development of Aristotle’s thought through two different periods while he was in Athens.
Firstly, as a student at Plato’s academy from 367- 347 B.C, and secondly, as a teacher running his own school, Lyceum, from 335-322 B.C. This illustrates Aristotle’s’ expansion and his criticism of Plato’s Gorgias, 386 B.C, which....
