{"id":1701,"date":"2012-03-28T14:58:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T14:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2021-08-05T19:19:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T19:19:40","slug":"latin-literature-vii-oratory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/latin-literature-vii-oratory\/","title":{"rendered":"Latin literature VII: Oratory"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The oratory was for the ancient the art of persuading people through speaking correctly. His teaching and techniques are called rhetoric. In Rome, following the models of classical Athens, oratory took on enormous importance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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From the 2nd century BC. Rome hosted a large number of Greek rhetoricians, while some Romans traveled to Greece to learn the techniques of public speaking. At this time the most brilliant speeches were uttered in the Senate, the real decision-making center of public life in Rome, where the capacity of persuasion in the exercise of oratory was decisive for the political success of a Roman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The careful and educated diction gave rise to many of the literary tropes that we know, which nowadays are also called figures of speech. Because of these figures oratory is one of the most difficult and elaborate literary genres.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Oratory<\/strong> speeches are usually classified into three types<\/strong>: deliberative<\/strong>, which tries to convince someone to do or not do something; judicial<\/strong>, which defends the innocence or guilt of someone and the demonstrative<\/strong>, which consists on praising or criticizing someone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n