Comparison of Ancient and Modern Political Oratory

achieved adapted addressed Æschines ancient and modern ancient world appeal argument assembly Athenian ecclesia Athens audience Bolingbroke brilliant Brougham Burke business-like century character characteristic Chatham Cicero Cleon combined considerable contemporaries criticism culture debate declamation Deinarchus Demosthenes Dionysius earnestness eloquence emotions England English orator English oratory Eschines fail forensic genius gift Gracchus Greece Greek hearers highest history of Roman Hortensius House of Commons Hyperides intellectual development Isaeus Isocrates judgment language law-courts literary qualities literature Lord Brougham Lysias Macedon mind Mirabeau modern oratory names nation natural parliament parliamentary oratory party passages Pericles period persuasion Phocion Pitt Pnyx political liberty political speeches practical produced prose public meeting Quintilian representative reputation rhetoric rhetorician rivals Roman oratory Roman political oratory Roman Republic scientific oratory second Philippic senate speaker speaking spirit struggle style success taste Themistocles Thucydides tion utterance vigour word-painting words ἐκ καὶ τοῦ