Philippicsrecurrencering-compositionstructureThirdPhilippicThe article presents an exploration into the rhetorical strategies of the ancient Greek orator Demosthenes. The article highlights the essential challenge which every speaker faces in balancing the separate strategic appeals to emotion and to logic. ...
Though you may not have heard of the Athenian orator Demosthenes, consider the fact that one of history’s most famed speakers of all time, Cicero, cited his ancient forebear 300 years later. Demosthenes’Third Philippic, so-called because it was the third speech he gave devoted to convincing...