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Why Has America Produced so Few Eloquent Orators in Recent Years? The Ancient Roman Marcus Tullius Cicero Gives Us the Answer and the Remedy

Works Cited

  • Classical sources that are mentioned in this essay follow universal citation style and do not include references to specific editions unless explicitly stated. The Loeb Classical Library of Harvard University Press offers excellent editions of the classical works referenced in this essay.
  • Aristotle. Rhetorica.
  • Cicero. De oratoria.
  • Enos, Richard Leo. “Quintilian’s Message, Again: His Philosophy of Education.” Essay in a special edition of Advances in the History Rhetoric. Guest editor, James J. Murphy, Emeritus Professor, The University of California, Davis. Advances in the History of Rhetoric (now Journal for the History of Rhetoric) Vol. 19. 2: 111–23.
  • Quintilian. Institutio oratoria.
  • Skinnell, Ryan. “Bad People Speaking Effectively in the History of Rhetoric.” In “Octalog IV: The Politics of Rhetorical Studies in 2021.” Ed. by Elise Verzosa Hurley. Rhetoric Review 40.4: 337–40.
  • Tacitus. Dialogus de oratoribus.

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