Attic Style Rhetoric

Both styles influenced writers and speakers in rome and much later in britain.

Attic style rhetoric.

Style is the dress of thoughts lord chesterfield the style of an author should be the image of his mind but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise edward gibbon style is not the gold setting of the diamond thought. Hegesias of magnesia was asianism s first main representative and was considered its founder. It is the glitter of the diamond itself austin o malley thoughts of a recluse 1898. Both styles influenced writers and speakers in rome and much later in britain.

Asiatic attic style in greek literature and art was replaced for a time by the more decorative and florid asiatic style. In classical rhetoric decorum is the use of a style that is appropriate to a subject situation speaker and audience. Hegesias developed and exaggerated stylistic effects harking back to the sophists and the gorgianic style. Attic style in greek literature and art was replaced for a time by the more decorative and florid asiatic style.

According to cicero s discussion of decorum in de oratore see below the grand and important theme should be treated in a dignified and noble style the humble or trivial theme in a less exalted manner. The work of the attic orators inspired the later rhetorical movement of atticism an approach to speech composition in a simple rather than ornate style. Attic would resurface again as the ideal suggesting a more ascetic brief and witty concise style.