Keyword

oratory

Description: The art and practice of delivering effective or eloquent public speeches, studied within rhetoric, communication, and literary history.

Primary topic: Rhetoric and Communication Studies (21%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q107268129

OpenAlex ID: keywords/oratory

1975 · K. J. Dover · Modern Language Journal · 1,184

Knowledge and passion: Ilongot notions of self and social life

1980 · Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 733

Sexual Morality in Ancient Rome

2006 · Rebecca Langlands · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 492

Greek Declamation

1983 · D. A. Russell · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 431

New England Literary Culture

1986 · Lawrence Buell · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 383

Politics, Persuasion and the People before the Social War (150–90 B.C.)

1986 · Fergus Millar · The Journal of Roman Studies · 353

Eloquence in an electronic age: the transformation of political speechmaking

1989 · Choice Reviews Online · 332

Characterization and Individuality in Greek Literature

1991 · Niall W. Slater, C. B. R. Pelling · The Classical World · 329

Magic and Rhetoric in Ancient Greece

1975 · Jacqueline de Romilly · Harvard University Press eBooks · 326

The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens

2002 · Virginia Hunter, Danielle S. Allen · Phoenix · 322

De Oratore

1942 · Cicero · Digital Loeb Classical Library · 315

The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya

1995 · Angelique Haugerud · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 306

The state of speech: rhetoric and political thought in ancient Rome

2008 · Choice Reviews Online · 298

Making a New Man

2005 · John Dugan · Oxford University Press eBooks · 294

De Inventione; De Optimo Genere Oratorum; Topica

1949 · Marcus Tullius Cıcero, Horatio Hubbell · 285

The Evolution of Greek Prose Style

1997 · Kenneth Dover · 276

Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses

2014 · Routledge eBooks · 273

Cicero's Role Models

2010 · Henriette van der Blom · Oxford University Press eBooks · 273

The Oxford companion to African American literature

1998 · Choice Reviews Online · 241

Oratory and Political Career in the Late Roman Republic

2016 · Henriette van der Blom · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 238

The discourse of the sublime: readings in history, aesthetics, and the subject

1990 · Choice Reviews Online · 232

Stance, Style, and the Linguistic Individual

2009 · Barbara Johnstone · Oxford University Press eBooks · 229

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rhetoric

2009 · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 227

Eloquence Is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America

2001 · Konstantin Dierks, Sandra M. Gustafson · Journal of the Early Republic · 227

Orationis Ratio: The Stylistic Theories and Practice of the Roman Orators, Historians, and Philosophers

1966 · George Kennedy, A. D. Leeman · The American Journal of Philology · 227

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