{"id":26,"date":"2025-08-12T20:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/historyofrhetoric\/?p=26"},"modified":"2025-09-05T16:40:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:40:22","slug":"chapter-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/historyofrhetoric\/chapter-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Rhetoric at Rome <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chapter Five<\/strong> considers rhetoric in the Roman world as a path to political power, personal success, and participation in civic life. Rhetorical training was a key to influence and personal advancement, but was also a means of advancing traditional Roman values. Rhetoric also came to be viewed as the means of achieving distinction and grace in writing. Roman theorists such as Cicero and Quintilian developed the loci<\/em> of judicial pleading to a very high level of sophistication. Longinus also employed the insights of Greek rhetoric to transform the Latin language, considered rough and vulgar by the Greeks, into one of the great beauty, power, and subtlety of expression.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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