Chapter 2 terms

Question 1

Areté

Answer 1

Virtue; an ability to manage one’s personal affairs in an intelligent manner, and to succeed in public life. Human excellence, natural leadership ability

Question 2

Akesis or meletē

Answer 2

Practice

Question 3

Boule

Answer 3

Representative body of 500 Athenian citizens that met daily to supervise the city

Question 4

Chiasmus

Answer 4

Rhetorical device that takes its name from the reversing of elements in parallel clauses, forming an X (chi) in the sentence

Question 5

Demos

Answer 5

The people

Question 6

Dialektike

Answer 6

Dialectic, the method of investigating philosophical issues by the give and take of argument. A method of teaching that involved training students to argue either side of a case

Question 7

Dikasteria

Answer 7

The Athenian court

Question 8

Dissoi logoi

Answer 8

Contradictory arguments

Question 9

Eikos

Answer 9

Arguing from probability

Question 10

Ekklesia

Answer 10

The ruling Athenian Assembly

Question 11

Endoxa

Answer 11

The probable premises from which dialectic began. Premises that were widely believed

Question 12

Epideixis

Answer 12

A speech prepared for a formal occasion

Question 13

Eristic

Answer 13

Discourse’s power to express, to captivate, or argue, or to injure

Question 14

Hataera

Answer 14

Educated female courtesan

Question 15

Heuristic

Answer 15

Discourse’s capacity for discovery, whether of facts, insights, or even self-awareness

Question 16

Isegoria

Answer 16

The right of all free male citizens to speak in public settings and assemblies

Question 17

Kairos

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Rhetoric’s search for relative truth rather than absolute certainty; a consideration of opposite points of
view, as well as attention to such factors as time and circumstances. An opportune moment or situation. Also, a sense of decorum regarding public speech.

Question 18

Logos

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Word; argument. Also, a transcendent source of truth for Plato

Question 19

Nomos

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Social custom or convention; rule by agreement among the citizens

Question 20

Paideia

Answer 20

A course of study

Question 21

Peitho

Answer 21

Greek goddess of persuasion

Question 22

Physis

Answer 22

The law or rule of nature under which the strong dominate the weak

Question 23

Polis

Answer 23

In ancient Greece, an independent city-state

Question 24

Proterptic

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The possibility for persuading others to think as they think, to act as they wish them to act

Question 25

Psychagogas

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A poet, a leader of souls through a kind of incantation

Question 26

Pythia

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Woman considered to be in intimate contact with the gods

Question 27

Sophistes (pl. Sophistae)

Answer 27

An authority, an expert, a teacher. A teacher of rhetoric

Question 28

Techne

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A practical art, a science, or a systematic study

Question 29

Thesmos

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Law derived from the authority of kings