Abstract
pideictic rhetoric, says George Kennedy in an understatement, is form of literature which has relatively few admirers today. And main reason for this dearth of admirers appears to be its nonpragmatic nature; unlike forensic and deliberative rhetorics, epideictic does not seem to have a viable, legitimizing purpose. J. Richard Chase, citing nineteenthcentury rhetorician Richard Volkmann and ancient commentator Syrianus, notes that early influence of Gorgias created a need for a two-part classification of oratory: pragmatikon, practical oratory used by Athenian citizens in law court and assembly; and epideictikon, the oratory of non-citizen who was permitted to speak only at festivals or through either written word or, as logographers, through Athenian citizen (p. 293). E. M. Cope describes epideictic as inferior to forensic and deliberative rhetorics because it is demonstrative, showy, ostentatious, declamatory and has no practical purposes in view.' And Perelman and
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