Question: Theories of rhetoric and composition pedagogy, the field of rhetoric has been a matter of considerable debate for millennia, Aristotle, was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of which Classical location?
Context: Rhetoric is the art of discourse, wherein a writer or speaker strives to inform, persuade or motivate particular audiences in specific situations.  As a subject of formal study and a productive civic practice, rhetoric has played a central role in the European tradition.  Its best known definition comes from Aristotle, who considers it a counterpart of both logic and politics, and calls it "the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion."  Rhetoric typically provides heuristics for understanding, discovering, and developing arguments for particular situations, such as Aristotle's three persuasive audience appeals, logos, pathos, and ethos.  The five canons of rhetoric, which trace the traditional tasks in designing a persuasive speech, were first codified in classical Rome: invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery.  Along with grammar and logic (or dialectic—see Martianus Capella), rhetoric is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. Collaborative pedagogy stems from the process theory of rhetoric and composition.  Collaborative pedagogy believes that students will better engage with writing, critical thinking, and revision if they engage with others.  Collaborative pedagogy pushes back against the Current-Traditional model of writing, as well as other earlier theories explaining rhetoric and composition; earlier theories of writing, especially current-traditional, emphasizes writing as a final product (completed individually).  In contrast, collaborative pedagogy rejects the notion that students think, learn, and write in isolation.  Collaborative pedagogy strives to maximize critical thinking, learning, and writing skills through interaction and inter-personal engagement.  Collaborative pedagogy also connects to the broader theory of collaborative learning, which encompasses other disciplines including, but not limited to, education, psychology, and sociology. Corax (Greek: Κόραξ , "Korax"; fl.  5th century BC) was one of the founders (along with Tisias) of ancient Greek rhetoric.  Some scholars contend that both founders are merely legendary personages, others that Corax and Tisias were the same person, described in one fragment as "Tisias, the Crow" ("corax" is ancient Greek for "crow").  And according to Aristotle, Empedocles was the actual founder of rhetoric, but this is also unlikely.  It is believed that William Shakespeare derived the name "Sycorax" from Corax of Syracuse.  Corax is said to have lived in Sicily in the 5th century BC, when Thrasybulus, tyrant of Syracuse, was overthrown and a democracy formed. The field of rhetoric has been a matter of considerable debate for millennia.  Derived from the Greek word for public speaking, rhetoric's original concern dealt primarily with the spoken word.  Aristotle wrote a philosophical work that still has major scholarly impact, "Rhetoric", in which he identifies five canons of the field of rhetoric: invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery.  Invention is concerned with the content or idea being expressed, and relates to the rhetorician’s understanding of his goals.  Arrangement deals with issues of how to best organize an argument in order to attain the speaker or writer’s goals.  It is closely related to style, the third element, which relates to gestures, metaphors, and word choices selected to best influence the audience and reach the desired goal.  Memory is the fourth and simplest element of rhetoric in being related specifically to spoken rhetoric, specifically concerned with remembering the words in one’s speech.  Finally, delivery concerns tone, word choice, posture and other such bodily signs that influence the effect of one’s words on an audience. Topos (from Ancient Greek: τόπος 'place' abbreviated from Ancient Greek: τόπος κοινός "tópos koinós", 'common place'; "pl."  topoi), in Latin locus (from "locus communis"), referred in the context of classical Greek rhetoric to a standardised method of constructing or treating an argument.  (See "topoi" in classical rhetoric.) Cognitive science and linguistic theory have played an important role in providing empirical research into the writing process and serving composition pedagogy.  As composition theories, there is some dispute concerning the appropriateness of tying these two schools of thought together into one theory of composition.  However, their empirical basis for research and ties to the process theory of composition and cognitive science warrants their connection to some extent. Stagira ( ), Stagirus ( ), or Stageira (Greek: Στάγειρα or Στάγειρος ) was an ancient Greek city, located in central Macedonia, near the eastern coast of the peninsula of Chalkidice, and is chiefly known for being the birthplace of Aristotle, who was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.  The city lies approximately 8 km north northeast of the present-day village of Stagira, close to the town of Olympiada. New rhetorics is an interdisciplinary field approaching for the broadening of classical rhetorical canon.  The New Rhetoric is a result of various efforts of bringing back rhetorics from the marginal status it attained by its image and 'negative connotations' of "political lies, corporate spin, long list of Greek and Roman terms for patterns of expression no one knowingly uses, purple prose, boiler-plate arrangement schemas, unimaginative reproductions of bullshit and so on" if not to its previous place of a discipline "associated with social and intellectual prestige" then at least to the level of the other contemporary fields in the social, cultural and linguistic studies.  Notoriously the field emerged after the work of Chaïm Perelman and Lucille Olbrechts-Tyteca in their book "The New Rhetoric" (1969) but both the notion and the idea for the need of "new" rhetoric, different from the "old" one can be traced to the works of Kenneth Burke - "A Rhetoric of Motives" (1950) and "Rhetoric - Old and New" (1967). Aristotle's Rhetoric (Greek: Ῥητορική; Latin: "Ars Rhetorica") is an ancient Greek treatise on the art of persuasion, dating from the 4th century BC.  The English title varies: typically it is titled "Rhetoric", the "Art of Rhetoric", "On Rhetoric", or a "Treatise on Rhetoric". Aristotle ( ; Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης , , "Aristotélēs"; 384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece.  His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, whereafter Proxenus of Atarneus became his guardian.  At seventeen or eighteen years of age, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of thirty-seven (c. 347 BC).  His writings cover many subjects – including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics and government – and constitute the first comprehensive system of Western philosophy.  Shortly after Plato died, Aristotle left Athens and, at the request of Philip II of Macedon, tutored Alexander the Great beginning in 343 BC.
Answer: Greece