Abstract
‘Oratory’ examines the reasons for oratory's importance in the classical world and how it developed to meet the changing demands of speakers and audiences. The rules and techniques underpinning effective communication were known in the ancient world as ‘rhetoric’, and learning the art of rhetoric was the backbone of higher education for Greeks and Romans from the 5th century bc onwards. Oratory contains some of the finest examples of Greek and Latin prose, and the surviving speeches illuminate many essential features of Greek and Roman society and public life. Aristotle divided oratory into three broad types: deliberative, forensic, and display. Demosthenes and Cicero were regarded as the greatest Greek and Roman orators respectively.
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