Timelines

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Contents 1 Classical Rhetoric 1.1 Greeks: 490-320 BCE 1.2 Romans: 106 BCE-100 AD 2 Contemporary

Classical Rhetoric

490 BCE - 100 AD

Greeks: 490-320 BCE

• Protagoras: ~440 BCE
• Gorgias: ~425 BCE
  • Known for his contributions to Sophism
• Isocrates: ~400 BCE
  • Famous as a teacher, though a poor orator himself.
  • Spoke against the Sophists
• Socrates: ~445 BCE
  • Plato's teacher
• Plato: ~400 BCE
  • Gorgias ~ 385 BCE
• Aristotle: ~350 BCE
  • Aristotle,_Rhetoric ~332 BCE

Romans: 106 BCE-100 AD

• Cicero ~75 BCE
  • De Inventione 87 BCE
  • De Oratore 55 BCE
• Quintilian ~1 AD
  • Institutio Oratia 95 BCE

Contemporary