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World Class Rhetoricians

  • Sappho
    200

    Sappho

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

    The Sophists

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

    Aspasia

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

    Socrates

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

    Plato

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

    Cicero

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

    Qunitillian

    100-35 BCE. Interested in teaching.
  • Aristotle

    Aristotle

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