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Cicero and Quintilian on the Formation of an Orator [pdf]
- 082349872349872 3y agoInteresting to see the emphasis on interplay between written (readers may backtrack) and spoken (but listeners cannot) exposition/persuasion. I personally think many of the rhetorical devices of antiquity are tactical in nature, enabling a speaker to take an argument whose complexity would be better served by a literary presentation, and still effectively present it orally.