Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Description
The paper tries to identify features of Hitler’s rhetoric that may have made it gripping to large crowds, using a 1940 speech at the ‘Sportpalast’ as example. Observations about powerful rhetoric in Hermogenes and St. Augustine are found to give suggestive hints.
Ancient rhetoric in contemporary political discourse
Period
13 Apr 2015
Event title
THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE: Annual Conference University of Bristol