087 Rhetoric and the Sophists
The History of Ancient Greece
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Gorgius's Rhetoric
Gorgius was the first order known to develop and teach a distinctive style of speaking. He believed that rhetoric is a technique, with which one could persuade an audience toward any course of action. After one pithian oration, he is said to have installed a solid gold statue of himself in the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. This if true would have been the first gold statue to be erected for a human among the ancient Greeks.
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