The Beginnings of Rhetorical Theory in Classical Athens From: AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association | Date: May 1, 2002| Author: Milns, R D | Copyright AUMLA May 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Edward Schiappa. The Beginnings of Rhetorical Theory in Classical Athens. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999

The traditional view of the origin of rhetorical theory in ancient Greece is that it was the overthrow of tyranny in Sicilian Syracuse in 467 BC and the establishment there of democracy that resulted in large-scale litigation over property ownership and with it the development of techniques for persuading the courts by means of clever speeches. The key figure in this is a ma...

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