Rhetorician

Who was the skilled orator and rhetorician who tricked us into thinking that health insurance might not be for people with preexisting conditions?

According to Weaver there are four types of argument, and through the argument a person habitually uses the critic can see the rhetorician's worldview.

Although he is not commonly regarded as a rhetorician, St. Augustine (354-430) was trained in rhetoric and was at one time a professor of Latin rhetoric in Milan.

As a rhetorician, he was a determined opponent of Isocrates and his school.

Elizabeth Speller, pp. 74–81 Later, the Greek rhetorician Aelius Aristides was to extol his activities by writing that he "extended over his subjects a protecting hand, raising them as one helps fallen men on their feet".

Hildegard’s participation in these arts speaks to her significance as a female rhetorician, transcending bans on women's social participation and interpretation of scripture.

In making his argument, the speaker uses the conventional, textbook-approved order of argument from Swift's time (which was derived from the Latin rhetorician Quintilian ).

In return, Socrates contradicts Gorgias' statements, because Gorgias had implied that if a rhetorician uses rhetoric for injustices, the teacher should not be at fault.

The second-century rhetorician Theon defines diegesis as "an expository account of things which happened or might have happened".

Thucydides 5.16.3 In his Stratagems, the 2nd-century Macedonian rhetorician Polyaenus describes a battle between the Spartans and Demetrius of Macedon in 294 BC.

Zeno is said to have declined an invitation to visit Antigonus in Macedonia, although their supposed correspondence preserved by Laërtiussfn is undoubtedly the invention of a later rhetorician.