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- Gisbert, Blaise - French rhetorician and critic; born at Cahors, 21 February, 1657; died at Montpellier, 21 February, 1731.
- Kenneth Burke Links - Selection of links related to the rhetorician includes biographies, excerpts, and essays. By Martin Ryder.
- Isocrates - Wikipedia - Biography of the Greek rhetorician who was one of the ten Attic orators.
- Paul de Man - Wikipedia - Encyclopedia entry about the rhetorician and literary theorist.
- The Virtual Burkeian Parlor - References and a discussion mailing list about Kenneth Burke, a prominent rhetorician.
- Kenneth Burke: Symbolic Action - Biography of the American literary theorist and rhetorician complemented with an overview of his theories.
- Corax of Syracuse - Wikipedia - Profile of the Greek rhetorician who structured judicial speeches into various parts.
- Kenneth Burke - Short biography of the American rhetorician. With relevant links.
- Victorinus, Caius Marius - Profile of the fourth-century grammarian, rhetorician, philosopher, and theologian.
- Severus Sanctus Endelechus - Christian rhetorician and poet of the fourth century.
Wikipedia Articles
- List of women rhetoricians - Within the field of rhetoric, the contributions of women rhetoricians have often been overlooked. Anthologies comprising the history of rhetoric or rhetoricians often leave the impression there were none.
- Loci Theologici - A term applied by Melanchthon to Evangelical systems of dogmatics and retained by many as late as the seventeenth century. The word was borrowed, as he himself says, from the usage of the classic rhetoricians, in whose works topoi or loci, denote the places or sources from which proofs are deduced.
- Doxa - Doxa (δόξα) is a Greek word meaning common belief or popular opinion, from which are derived the modern terms of orthodoxy and heterodoxy. Used by the Greek rhetoricians as a tool for the formation of argument by using common opinions, the doxa was often manipulated by sophists to persuade the people, leading to Plato's condemnation of Athenian democracy.
- Gorgias (dialogue) - Gorgias is an important Socratic Dialogue in which Plato sets the rhetorician, whose specialty is persuasion, in opposition to the philosopher, whose specialty is dissuasion, or refutation. The art of persuasion was necessary for political and legal advantage in classical Athens, and rhetoricians promoted themselves as teachers of this fundamental skill.
- Aelius Festus Aphthonius - Aelius Festus Aphthonius was a Latin grammarian of the 3rd or 4th century, possibly of African origin, and considered to be one of the most important classical rhetoricians.