On Oratory And Orator

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Speaking in public is not an easy thing to do. For many politicians and public figurers they needed to learn from the best to show their true characters. One particular group of people that need to learn the most when speaking in public are lawyers. A lawyer is someone that must know a lot of the public speaking because half their jobs is to present evidence in front of a group of people. One person in history that many lawyers look up to when it comes to public speaking is the great Cicero. Cicero was a famous Roman philosopher, lawyer, and politician. During his time he wrote a book called, “On Oratory and Orator”; in this book is about his teaching or his point of view when presenting a speech in public. Also, Cicero has done many speeches in front of the Roman Republic that has had a huge impact in the Roman Republic. …show more content…
Therefore, Cicero establish in his book, “On Oratory and Orator”, three techniques that he uses in his speeches against Catilina to show he is a threat to the Roman Republic, and those three techniques are the use of ethos, pathos,

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