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World Class Rhetoricians

By kristinamalahy
  • 200

    Sappho

    Sappho
    630-570 BCE. A female lyric poet of unrivaled fame.
  • 270

    The Sophists

    The Sophists
    600 BCE. Lysias, Gorgias, Demosthenes, Isocrates, Protogoras. Taught rhetoric for money.
  • 400

    Aspasia

    Aspasia
    470-420 BCE. Influential female rhetorician left ouf of history.
  • 401

    Socrates

    Socrates
    469-399 BCE. Killed for being a Sophist.
  • 446

    Plato

    Plato
    424-347 BCE. Part of the Gorgias.
  • Jan 1, 764

    Cicero

    Cicero
    106-43 BCE. Contemporary of Caesar. Enemy of Marc Antony.
  • Jan 1, 770

    Qunitillian

    Qunitillian
    100-35 BCE. Interested in teaching.

  • Aristotle

    Aristotle
    384-322 BCE. Had three sets to divide rhetoric.