Oratory and Rhetoric: Ancient to Early Modern

Alexander Samson

A consideration of the ways in which classical theories of oratory and rhetoric were redeployed, understood and influential in the early modern world.
PROGRAMME:
3 - 4.30pm: Session 1
Sarah Knight (Leicester) 
“Take heede of that dull, cold, idle way of reading Syllogismes out of a paper”: learning to argue at the early modern English universities
Michael Trapp (KCL)
Aelius Aristides’ Platonic Orations: Orators, Politicians and Plato’s Gorgias
4.30 - 5pm Tea
5 - 6.30pm: Session 2
Gesine Manuwald (UCL)
‘that talker, Cicero’: the orator Cicero as a figure in early modern drama
Mike Edwards (Roehampton)
A Recipe for Bacon and Chickpea 
All welcome, followed by a wine reception.

UCL, South Wing, 1st floor, Institute of Advanced Studies Seminar Room 20

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