Rhetoric and Roman Orators
Linguistic devices, figures of speech, and rules of classical rhetoric -- and Roman orators.
Isocrates: Against the Sophists
The text in English, from the Perseus project begins by criticizing educators for making vain promises.
The text in English, from the Perseus project begins by criticizing educators for making vain promises.
Other Errors
From Donatus, 12 types of errors: barbarism, solecism, acyrologia, cacemphaton, pleonasm, perissology, macrology, tautology, eclipse, tapinosis, cacosyntheton, and amphiboly
From Donatus, 12 types of errors: barbarism, solecism, acyrologia, cacemphaton, pleonasm, perissology, macrology, tautology, eclipse, tapinosis, cacosyntheton, and amphiboly
Forest of Rhetoric
An online rhetorical guide to both classical and renaissance rhetoric. This silva rhetoricae has many great examples!
An online rhetorical guide to both classical and renaissance rhetoric. This silva rhetoricae has many great examples!
Donatus, de tropis
Thirteen types of tropes metaphor, catachresis, metalepsis, metonymy, antonomasia, epitheton, synecdoche, onomatopoeia, periphrasis, hyperbaton, hyperbole, allegory, and homoeosis.
Thirteen types of tropes metaphor, catachresis, metalepsis, metonymy, antonomasia, epitheton, synecdoche, onomatopoeia, periphrasis, hyperbaton, hyperbole, allegory, and homoeosis.
Cicero Home Page
If you want to know about the world's most famous orator, go here. Everything you want to know is there! Graphics, translations, texts, bios, etc.
If you want to know about the world's most famous orator, go here. Everything you want to know is there! Graphics, translations, texts, bios, etc.