RHODIANISM IN CICERO’S WRITINGS
RHODIANISM IN CICERO’S WRITINGS

Summary/Abstract: Considered one of the most scholarly Romans, Cicero imposed himself as an unequaled orator and inventor of Roman eloquence. It was not a coincidence that Quintilianus affirmed that Cicero was not the name of a person, but the name of eloquence, and Seneca, the Rector, added that Cicero was the only spirit comparable with the empire the Romans offered the world. Cicero’s seven works about eloquence consolidate a new oratory direction, the Rhodianism, a fundamental landmark of European rhetoric and an present model for the contemporary scholars who want to know the arts and science secrets of each of his persuasive speech, while due to all his writings (rhetoric and oratory works, political and philosophical treatises, letters) Cicero continues to be one of the main pillars of Western expression, thought, and culture.

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