The ten Attic orators were considered the greatest Greek orators and logographers of the classical era (5th–4th century BC). They are included in the "Canon...

Speaker," to motivate their ruling on a presented bill. In the 19th century, orators and historians and speakers such as Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, and Col...

and called for a return to the approaches of the Attic orators. Although the plainer language of Atticism eventually became as belabored and ornate as the...

standardized Attic Greek, mainly on the language of Attic orators and written in Greek uncial. Attic replaces the Ionic -σσ with -ττ : Attic γλῶττα → Ionic...

city of Athens Attic Greek, a dialect of the Greek language spoken in ancient Athens Attic orators, ten ancient Athenian speechwriters Attic peninsula, another...

by Friedrich Blass (1881) R. C. Jebb, Attic Orators Ps.-Plutarch, Vitae X. Oratorum or Lives of the Ten Orators Philostratus, Vit. Sophistarum, i. 15...

outlines a guide that will lead to the creation of successful orators across Roman society. In Orator, Cicero also addressed the accusation lodged by his fellow...

from the chaos of the civil wars. The Empire reduced the space of the orators and of the political men, but there is no viable alternative to it. Nevertheless...

logographer (speech writer) in ancient Greece. He was one of the ten Attic orators included in the "Alexandrian Canon" compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium...

(born 1947), Greek painter and sculptor Ascolia Attic Greek Attic orators Attic talent Atticism Neo-Attic Pausanias,Description of Greece,1.2.7. Pausanias...

Letters L244) Collected works L308) Minor Attic Orators: Volume I. Antiphon and Andocides L395) Minor Attic Orators: Volume II. Lycurgus. Dinarchus. Demades...

Δημοσθένης, romanized: Dēmosthénēs; Attic Greek: [dɛːmostʰénɛːs]; 384 – 12 October 322 BC) was a Greek statesman and orator in ancient Athens. His orations...

Andocides (Ancient Greek: Ἀνδοκίδης) may refer to: Andocides, one of the Attic orators Andokides (potter), a sixth-century potter whose wares were decorated...

The resurgence was called the Second Sophistic and it recalled the grand orators and teachings of the 5th century BC. “The sophist was to revive the antique...

on principles drawn from the practices and experiences of ancient Greek orators. Aristotle was one of the first oratory teachers to use definitive rules...

was an Athenian logographer (speech writer). He was one of the ten Attic orators included in the "Alexandrian canon" compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium...

Ernst Robert Curtius studied topoi as "commonplaces", themes common to orators and writers who re-worked them according to occasion, e.g., in classical...

property of the state because of their religious significance. From Attic Orators, vol. I. p. 289: Throughout Attica, besides the olives which were private...

An orator is a person who speaks in public. Orator may also refer to: Attic orators Given name Orator Fuller Cook (1867–1949), American botanist and entomologist...

(1837–1862), a collection of essays dealing mainly with Cicero and the Attic orators Cicero, De Legibus (1842) and De Oratore (1863) Apsinis et Longini Rhethorica...

outcome. In the literature of the classical ancient world, writers and orators used kairos to specify moments of opportune action, often through metaphors...

Atromḗtou Kothōkídēs; 389–314 BC) was a Greek statesman and one of the ten Attic orators. Although it is known he was born in Athens, the records regarding his...

between the competing Attic and Asiatic styles, Cicero would ultimately become considered second only to Demosthenes among history's orators. While Cicero had...

[isokrátɛ̂ːs]; 436–338 BC) was an ancient Greek rhetorician, one of the ten Attic orators. Among the most influential Greek rhetoricians of his time, Isocrates...

logographer (speechwriter) in Ancient Greece. He was the last of the ten Attic orators included in the "Alexandrian Canon" compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium...

which is quoted by Quintilian. He also wrote a treatise on the Ten Attic Orators, and individual works on the speeches of Demosthenes, Antiphon, and...

Part of a series on Rhetoric History Ancient Greece Asianism Atticism Attic orators Calliope Sophists Ancient India Ancient Rome The age of Cicero Second...

Part of a series on Rhetoric History Ancient Greece Asianism Atticism Attic orators Calliope Sophists Ancient India Ancient Rome The age of Cicero Second...

political actor. The term is most famously associated with three noted orators of the ancient world: Demosthenes of ancient Athens, Cato the Elder and...

BCE. Second century BCE philosopher Theophrastus calls this Aristophon an orator. That this man, who was archon in the same year in which Demosthenes delivered...