Nepos—An Introduction to Latin Biography

The Sophists, as purveyors of the craft of rhetoric, exerted an influence both potent and profound upon the literature and thought of fifth-century Greece. Oratory had, of course, existed in the past, but first became self-conscious when Gorgias and his successors formulated rules for expression, speech structure and argument, and extended the subject's range to cover political and general, or ‘epideictic’, as well as purely forensic themes. Greek and (after some initial difficulties) Latin teachers of rhetoric were settled at Rome by the end of the second century b.c. Sometimes, and especially in the eulogies lipaminondas, Agesilaus, and Atticus, he attempts mild flights of rhetoric, and, as they have seen, the use of a highly wrought style on such occasions had honourable ancestry both in the Greek encomium and the native laudatio

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• Cornelius Nepos

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