The Birth of Rhetoric: Gorgias, Plato and their Successors

by Robert Wardy

What is rhetoric? Is it the capacity to persuade? Or is it 'mere' the ability to get others to do what the speaker wants, regardless of what they want? Robert Wardy uses Gorgias at the centre of this book and the debate.

Genres: Philosophy

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Robert Wardy is reader in Classics at the University of Cambridge, and Director of Studies in Philosophy and Classics at St Catharine's College, Cambridge.