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Became A Teacher Of Rhetoric: Greek Rhetoric.—Corax and Tisias, the earliest rhetors or teachers of rhetoric, exploited the argument from probability. The greatest r of rhetoric, Gorgias of Leontini, who cai Athens in 427 B.C., specialized in epideictic, th tory of display, and lent his name to the Gor figures : antithesis and similar devices for pi ing balance. The third major division, delibe oratory designed to sway legislative bodies more difficult to systematize and therefoi ceived less attention from the sophistic rhetc the late 5th century.
QUINTILIAN, kwm-til'yan, full name MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIANUS, Roman rhetorician: b. Calagurris (Calahorra), Spain, about 40 A.D. ; d. after 95. He was educated at Rome, where he studied under Domitius Afer, and about 69 began to practice as an advocate. Subsequently he became a teacher of rhetoric, and had Pliny the Younger and the two grandnephews of Domi-tian as pupils.
The conditions of political life t the republic fostered the study of rhetoric with the loss of liberty under the empire, R( eloquence declined into a preoccupation with ti forms of epideictic oratory. Because the scl . concerned themselves exclusively with orato training, emphasizing declamation and ficti courtroom cases based on history and rom; rhetoric continued to dominate literature. A 95 A.D.
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