087 Rhetoric and the Sophists

The History of Ancient Greece

Ryan Stitt

History, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2019

⏱️ 90 minutes

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In this episode, we describe the development of rhetoric in the ancient Greek world as an art that could be studied and employed in the law courts and politics, and its importance especially in Classical Athens; the roles and various opinions of the Sophists, who were lecturers that traveled from city to city, teaching not only rhetoric but also all of the other subjects that were not being covered by traditional education; and the lives, influences, writings, and various theories put forth by the earliest Rhetoricians and Sophists, including Protagoras, Gorgias, Antiphon, Hippias, Prodicus, and Thrasymachus, as well as synopses on four of Plato's dialogues (Protagoras, Gorgias, Hippias Major, and Hippias Minor)

Show Notes: http://www.thehistoryofancientgreece.com/2019/02/087-rhetoric-and-sophists.html

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0:00.0	Hello Wanderers in the Ancient World and fellow fans of the History of Ancient
0:06.1	Greece Podcast. I'm Devon, host of Human Circus journeys in the medieval world.
0:11.2	Inviting you to join me in wandering into slightly more recent history,
0:16.6	in following in the footsteps of 13th century friars as they went overland into the realms of
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0:29.4	hordes, of an English craftsman carrying a present from Queen Elizabeth to Sultan Muhammad the third
0:35.8	and of envoys and merchants who as we'll see were often much the same thing.
0:42.2	Their movements outline the links of a medieval world often much more the same thing.
0:42.5	Their movements outline the links of a medieval world that was much more interconnected
0:46.8	than you might think, and can reveal surprises, like a Parisian-born silversmith at Mongol
0:52.3	Caracoram, or a native of Lancashire working for the Ottoman
0:56.0	Sultan.
0:57.0	On human circus, I tell their stories, and I also put them into their historical context, covering the larger events that they were part of.
1:05.0	I've just recently finished a seven-part series on Marco Polo,
1:10.0	and I'm four episodes into a series on Robert de Clary and Jaffrey de Vieardois, a pair of participants in the
1:16.2	disastrous Fourth Crusade.
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1:35.4	It's Ryan Stitt and the History of Ancient Greece Podcast. You're going to be here. Oh, So, Hello, I'm Ryan Stitt, and welcome back to the history of ancient Greece, episode 87, rhetoric and the sophists.
2:32.0	Redderica, or rhetoric, is the art of using language to convince or persuade.
2:37.0	In the ancient world, which was a predominantly oral culture, the ability to speak effectively and convincingly was paramount.
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