Final Assessment Questions on “The Art of Oratory and Speech Culture” Card – 1 The Art of Oratory in the East: Kaykovus

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   The terms rhetoric, oratory, orator and their meanings
   

Before deeply investigating this branch of science the etymology and meaning of the following terms should be clearly defined to know what they mean and the language which they derived from rhetoric (n.) 1.early 14c., rethorike, "the art of eloquence and persuasiveness in language, the art of using language to influence others," 2.from Old French retorike, rethorique (Modern French rhétorique) and directly from Latin rhetorice. 3."art of an orator," from rhētōr (genitive rhētoros) "speaker, master speaker, orator; artist of discourse; teacher of rhetoric,"4.This is related to rhesis "speech," rhema "word, phrase, verb," literally "that which is spoken" (from PIE *wre-tor-, from root *were- (3) "to speak;" see verb). Orator-late 14c., oratour, "an eloquent or skilled speaker; one who pleads or argues for a cause," from Anglo-French oratour (Modern French orateur) and directly from Latin orator "speaker," from ōrare "to speak, speak before a court or assembly, pray to.


2.Classical period of Oratory: Quintilian’s Influence
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (A.D. 35–95) was a celebrated orator, rhetorician, Latin teacher and writer who promoted rhetorical theory from ancient Greece and from the height of Roman rhetoric. His work on rhetoric, the Institutio Oratoria, is an exhaustive volume of twelve books and was a major contribution to educational theory and literary criticism. Many later rhetoricians, especially from the Renaissance, derived their rhetorical theory directly from this text.– Quintilian During the hundred years plus which elapsed between the death of Cicero and the birth of Quintilian, education had vastly spread all over the Roman Empire, with rhetoric as the most important part of education. But by Quintilian’s time ( (Note: Gwynn, Aubrey. Roman Education from Cicero to Quintilian. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926.)), the popular trend in oratory was not rhetoric in the traditional sense, rather it was called “silver Latin,” a style that favored ornate embellishment over clarity and precision.

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