Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 2:41pm.
see the wiki article, it is an excellent summary.
Search WIKI Greek retoric http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric#History
So the first philosophers thought rhetoric was good right ?
"Good"? I dont know what good means.
Classical Greeks felt rhetoric, or the power to speak before an audience was essential and useful.
<<In ancient Greece, the earliest mention of oratorical skill occurs in Homer's Iliad, where heroes like Achilles, Hektor, and Odysseus were honored for their ability to advise and exhort their peers and followers (the Laos or army) in wise and appropriate action. With the rise of the democratic polis, speaking skill was adapted to the needs of the public and political life of cities in ancient Greece, much of which revolved around the use of oratory as the medium through which political and judicial decisions were made, and through which philosophical ideas were developed and disseminated. For modern students today, it can be difficult to remember that the wide use and availability of written texts is a phenomenon that was just coming into vogue in Classical Greece. In Classical times, many of the great thinkers and political leaders performed their works before an audience, usually in the context of a competition or contest for fame, political influence, and cultural capital; in fact, many of them are known only through the texts that their students, followers, or detractors wrote down. As has already been noted, rhetor was the Greek term for orator: A rhetor was a citizen who regularly addressed juries and political assemblies and who was thus understood to have gained some knowledge about public speaking in the process, though in general facility with language was often referred to as logôn techne, "skill with arguments" or "verbal artistry."[42]>>
Well then they looked at it as a positive aspect. Right?
YEs, in ancient and classical Greeks toolkits, rhetoric was how they did it. Your thoughts on Plato of the later period, are valid.
Oh ok i understand. Thank you very much :))
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