Principles of Sacred Eloquence

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Oratory, as an Art, was first mooted by Empedocles (b. C. But the oldest existing treatise on the subject is Aristotle''s Rhetoric. Cicero, at a later date, dealt more comprehensively with it in his Essays, as in Th...