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Demosthenes - Greek Orator Demosthenes
Demosthenes was a famous Greek orator known for writing the Phillipics.
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/greekmenandwomen/p/Demosthenes.htm
St. John Chrysostom - Who Was St. John Chrysostom
St. John Chrysostom was a "golden-voiced" orator and one of the 8 great Doctors of the Church (Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, Gregory the Great, Athanasius, ...
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Plutarch's Lives: Cicero
And afterwards, when he applied himself more curiously to these accomplishments, he had the name of being not only the best orator, but also the best poet ...
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Rhetoric and Roman Orators
Linguistic devices, figures of speech, and rules of classical rhetoric -- and Roman orators.
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Ancient Greek, especially Athenian, politics, orators, speeches ...
Ancient Greek, especially Athenian, politics, orators, speeches and constitutions.
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History of Roman Literature (1877) -A History of Roman Literature ...
Early interest in politics and law as giving the germs of oratory and jurisprudence. ... Self-praise of ancient orators Aemilius Scaurus Rutilius Catulus ...
http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/language/a/histromlitcont.htm
Latin Literature - EARLY PROSE: THE SATURA OR MIXED MODE. - J.W. ...
The most eloquent of jurists and the most learned of orators, he was at the same time a brilliant administrator and a paragon of public and private virtue; ...
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_text_mackail_i_iii_a.htm
Ancient Rome[]
There are extant fifty-seven orations of Cicero, and fragments of twenty more. ... A dialogue on orators. 2. A biography of his father-in-law, Agricola. 3. ...
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_pennellhistoryofrome43.h
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William Smith A Smaller History of Greece
This most famous of all the Grecian orators was born in B.C. 382-381. ... He studied the best rhetorical treatises and orations, and is said to have copied ...
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_smithhistoryofgreece19.h
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Introduction to Cicero's De senectute and De amicitia
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO, the greatest of Roman orators and the chief master of Latin prose style, was born at Arpinum, Jan. 3106 B.C. His father, ...
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_text_cicero_deamic_intro
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