So for my history of rhetoric class we had to read Cicero’s De Oratore, which if you are unfamiliar with either Cicero or his work, is a treatise on how to become a great public speaker written by one of the greatest legal minds Republican Rome ever produced. Seriously, look him up, fascinating guy. Anyways, he made a lot of great points about how an orator should speak in order to be effective, and it struck me that it was applicable to several of the poems that I plan on studying for my thesis simply because they revolve around someone trying to persuade someone else. I am still not sure yet if I will use any of it, but it is definitely a line of inquiry that I plan on pursuing further, because hey, why not? If you would like to know more, then keep reading as more posts will keep coming.

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