Cicero and the Secrets of Persuasive Oratory

[MyRealName]

He’s so persuasive, I didnt have to hear a thing he said, but I’m sold...

[inifin]

Another, very important point in oratory : volume and audio system both of which is missing in this piece 😂

[ozag]

A wonderfully clear, entertaining and illuminative presentation to Cicero"s strategies of persuasive and successful oration. Bravo!!!

[johnnycasteel]

One of my favorite professors of history and also explains it very well with nice insight.

[grahammiddleton]

The volume needs boosting on the audio

[seabrain]

Ironic that we are gifted with such an insightful lecture that we are rendered unable to hear. I feel the pain of every scribe who could not read the handwriting of a source needed for the publication of a paper which, should the source have been decipherable, been worthy of study for centuries.

[pauls]

I've seen this video so many times and every time I watch it I learn something new. Dr Aldrete is a born communicator and effortlessly leads the audience through this fascinating topic. Thank you for posting, Emory University.

[richarddelanet]

I have no idea yet, how much of this is accurate but it is very very interesting and meaningful ! I am appreciating it.

[fraternitas]

the speaker needs to show more chest hair, just to prove his point.

[ABC_DEF]

4:24. "He even collected the letters that he wrote to other people, family and friends, and assembled these into books and published those." This is a really bad mistake. Cicero's letters were assembled into books and published only after his death. The letters to Atticus were not published until 100 years later.

[BlackBitsBananas]

Man I feel bad for people with a bad speaker. Excellent lecture, I guess I cannot expect you to to be good at everything. Just hook up some speakers it’s worth listening to.

[kangakid]

That was brilliant. Truth is what can be argued for some but does this reflect virtue ? Imagine if Cicero and Machiavelli got together.
Wow, it is possible to identify these strategies with our politicians. This is mind blowing. Thank you so much I really enjoy listening to your presentations.

[tehufn]

This is very strange and very different than what I read in his texts and studied in my time... Cicero famously wrote on ethics, and how it was important to rhetoric. Quintilian, who praised Ciceronian style in rhetoric, famously defined rhetoric as "a good person speaking well." The "good person" part means he claimed that the rhetoric by definition was concerned with ethics. In that light, this is a fascinating speech for me.

I wonder, now, about the actual history of his speeches and how they contrast with his writing.

[susanmcdonald]

thank you Dr. Aldrete, I have your Great Course, "History of the Ancient World: A Global Perspective", we need History more than ever : we tend to think that with our technological & informational skills & access, that we are somehow smarter than the don't think so...

[matchedimpedance]

Great lecture. Thank you. I wonder, did Cicero ever write anything in which he addressed the question of whether it is ethical to use false statements for rhetorical purposes? Did he ever defend that the ends were justified by those means?

[speedlink]

wow this amazing and very well put together. Everything necessary and totally hitting the spot. thank you very much !

[victoriacrain]

This was fabulous. Thank you. Studying Cicero with my kids.

[wabdatl]

The volume gets louder this speech is worth listening to if you want to understand Cicero and his ideas of persuasion

[BlueBaron]

Pity about the audio. Greg's lecture is much better viewed on The Great Courses Plus. Problem there is their parser. You can use the word, phallus, in a review but clitoris is flagged as profanity 😅 😂 🤣 Greg, however, is simply outstanding!

[NeverStopTRK]

Trump was taking notes. Also for the ones who can't hear..
Ever heard of turning on closed captions?