Origins of Public Speaking

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Origins of Public Speaking
  1. Practiced long before more than 2,500 years ago
    1. Attributed to Anciente Greeks
      1. Persuaded the old fashion way
        1. Oral tradition
          1. Face to face with their audience
          2. Anciente Greece
            1. The rise of Democracy
              1. Rhetoric
                1. Defined by Aristotle the "faculty of discovering in the particular case all the available means of persuasion"
                2. Draco
                  1. An elder citizen considered to be the wisest of the Greeks, to sort their laws into an organized system known as codification
                  2. Pericles
                    1. installation of a pure democracy to maintain, a liberalized judicial system
                  3. The nature of rhetoric
                    1. Greek assemblies debated old and new laws on a yearly basis
                      1. Athens became a city of words, a city dominated by the orator.
                    2. Dialectics and logic
                      1. A debate intended to resolve a conflict between two contradictory (or polar opposites), or apparently contradictory ideas or elements logically, establishing truths on both sides rather than disproving one argument.
                      2. The rhetorical approach
                        1. Rhetoric is the process of developing a persuasive argument, and oratory is the process of delivering that argument
                      3. The Roman Republic’s Adoption of Rhetoric
                        1. Cicero’s Influence
                          1. Considered to be the greatest of the Roman orators, and was, among other things, a lawyer, politician, and philosopher.
                            1. The orator must have a firm foundation of general knowledge.
                              1. De Inventione
                                1. De Oratore
                                2. Provide his colleagues with a broad interpretation of Atticism, the best of the Greek theoreticians and practitioners of oratory.
                                3. Quintillion’s Influence
                                  1. Promoted rhetorical theory from ancient Greece and from the height of Roman rhetoric.
                                    1. Rhetoric was primarily composed of three aspects: the theoretical, the educational, and the practical
                                      1. The Institutio Oratoria
                                        1. Five canons: inventio, dispositio, elocutio, memoria, pronuntiatio
                                    2. The Middle Ages
                                      1. St. Augustine
                                        1. Rhetoric became aligned with preaching, letter writing, and education.
                                          1. St. Augustine had been a teacher of rhetoric before converting to Christianity in A.D. 386
                                          2. Christianity
                                            1. The clearest bridge to the Middle Ages, according to Murphy and Katula (1995), is found in the De doctrina christiana of Saint Augustine
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