One philosopher of this activity outlined five skills important in it, including mneme, hypokrisis, and heuresis.
One philosopher of this activity outlined five skills important in it, including mneme, hypokrisis, and heuresis. The dictum "rem tene, verba sequentur" was important in teaching this practice. This trade required the knowledge of communes loci, which one could learn through exercises called progymnasmata. Its "ten Attic" practitioners included Lysias and Hypereides. The terms exordium, partitio, and confutatio are defined in an important source on this practice, the Institutio of Quintilian. Apollonius Molon developed the "Rhodian style" of this by fusing its "Attic" and "Asiatic" styles. This practice, taught by the sophists, was essential for a young Roman rising politically, as shown through its use by a young lawyer to indict Verres and defend Caelius. For 10 points, name this technique practiced by people like Demosthenes and Cicero.
One philosopher of this activity outlined five skills important in it, including mneme, hypokrisis, and heuresis.
{oratory }[or {rhetoric}; or {public speaking}; or equivalents]