The word oratory comes from the Latin word "orare" which means: to speak or to expose in public. Oratory can be defined as the art of discourse. In the system of literary genres of antiquity can give an idea the fact that, unlike ours, the culture of primitive Rome was based on orality, its political and judicial systems were based on assemblies in which the citizen had to assert his opinion, hence eloquence, that is, the ability to speak in public with correctness and beauty in order to convince the audience, was one of ...
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The word oratory comes from the Latin word "orare" which means: to speak or to expose in public. Oratory can be defined as the art of discourse. In the system of literary genres of antiquity can give an idea the fact that, unlike ours, the culture of primitive Rome was based on orality, its political and judicial systems were based on assemblies in which the citizen had to assert his opinion, hence eloquence, that is, the ability to speak in public with correctness and beauty in order to convince the audience, was one of the ideals to which every citizen aspired.
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