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Author
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (48 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Language
English
Description
Orators take ordinary words and weave them into brilliant speeches. It takes a substantial amount of skill to be a great orator. History is full of leaders who have given inspiring speeches. Learn about twelve famous speeches from leaders such as Cesar Chavez, Ronald Reagan, Pat Summitt, Justin Trudeau, and Martin Luther King Jr. This diverse collection of speeches will open your eyes and ears to the power of the spoken word! Packed with fun facts,...
2) Demosthenes
Author
Pub. Date
1964
Physical Desc
7 volumes ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Demosthenes is generally acknowledged as the greatest orator in history. He overcame a stammer and the theft of his inheritance by his legal guardians to become as foundational to oratory as his contemporaries Plato and Aristotle are to philosophy.
Much like a major contemporary political figure, he overcame a stammer on his journey to greatness, with "inarticulate and stammering pronunciation." He was known as "a water drinker"; a stern and serious...
Author
Series
Loeb classical library volume 534
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xxxii, 414 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Apuleius, one of the great stylists of Latin literature, was born ca. 125 AD in Madauros to a politically prominent family and received an elite education in the provincial capital Carthage and at Athens, where he began a lifelong allegiance to Platonic philosophy. In the later 150s, he married Pudentilla of Oea, a wealthy widow, and seems to have enjoyed a distinguished public career in Africa and perhaps as an advocate in Rome. Although Apuleius...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
xii, 301 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
George A. Kennedy is Paddison Professor of Classics, Professor of Comparative Literature, and Adjunct Professor of Speech Communication at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
George Kennedy's three volumes on classical rhetoric have long been regarded as authoritative treatments of the subject. This new volume, an extensive revision and abridgment of The Art of Persuasion in Greece, The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World, and Greek Rhetoric...
Series
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
3 volumes ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with Oratory, an important element of Roman life from the earliest times, essential to running public affairs and for advancing individual careers long before it acquired literary dimensions, which happened once orators decided to write up and circulate written versions of their speeches after delivery. Beginning with Appius Claudius Caecus (340-273 BC), this three-volume edition...
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