num_pages: 208
description: What is rhetoric? Is it the capacity to persuade? Or is it 'mere' the ability to get others to do what the speaker wants, regardless of what they want? Robert Wardy uses Gorgias at the centre of this book and the debate.
language: English
title: The Birth of Rhetoric: Gorgias, Plato and their Successors
titlecomplete: The Birth of Rhetoric: Gorgias, Plato and their Successors (Issues in Ancient Philosophy)
genres: Philosophy
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Routledge