RHETORIC IN ANCIENT GREECE Flashcards

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Rhetoric in Ancient Greece focuses on?

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Wisdom

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Why were Sophists controversial?

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They want to gain fame and money.

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Who are the three famous sophists given and their concepts?

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  1. Gorgias and Anti-thesis
  2. Protagoras and Anti-logike
  3. Isocrates and Rhetorical Training
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What is anti-thesis?

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It is a figurative statement using two different imagery/elements.

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What is anti-logike?

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Showing why the opposite argument is wrong.

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What are the elements on Plato’s Debate with Gorgias in the Arts of Health? How about Socrate’s Shams Arts of Health?

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Maintain - Restore
Body - Soul

Gymnastics, medicine, legislative, justice
Hygiene, cookery, sophists, rhetoric

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What are Plato’s Phaedrus?

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  1. Psychagogia - leading the soul rather than influencing it
  2. The myth of the charioteer - wisdom governing nobility and appetite
  3. Rhetoric as Techne - knowledge of the truth
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