He’s so persuasive, I didnt have to hear a thing he said, but I’m sold...

Another, very important point in oratory : volume and audio system both of which is missing in this piece 😂

A wonderfully clear, entertaining and illuminative presentation to Cicero"s strategies of persuasive and successful oration. Bravo!!!

The volume needs boosting on the audio

Ironic that we are gifted with such an insightful lecture that we are rendered unable to hear. I feel the pain of every scribe who could not read the handwriting of a source needed for the publication of a paper which, should the source have been decipherable, been worthy of study for centuries.

I've seen this video so many times and every time I watch it I learn something new. Dr Aldrete is a born communicator and effortlessly leads the audience through this fascinating topic. Thank you for posting, Emory University.

Man I feel bad for people with a bad speaker. Excellent lecture, I guess I cannot expect you to to be good at everything. Just hook up some speakers it’s worth listening to.

4:24. "He even collected the letters that he wrote to other people, family and friends, and assembled these into books and published those." This is a really bad mistake. Cicero's letters were assembled into books and published only after his death. The letters to Atticus were not published until 100 years later.

the speaker needs to show more chest hair, just to prove his point.

That was brilliant. Truth is what can be argued for some but does this reflect virtue ? Imagine if Cicero and Machiavelli got together. Wow, it is possible to identify these strategies with our politicians. This is mind blowing. Thank you so much I really enjoy listening to your presentations.

This was fabulous. Thank you. Studying Cicero with my kids.

That was fun and informative. Thanks

This is very strange and very different than what I read in his texts and studied in my time... Cicero famously defined rhetoric as "a good person speaking well." The "good person" part means he claimed that the rhetoric by definition was concerned with ethics. In that light, this is a fascinating speech for me. I wonder, now, about the actual history of his speeches and how they contrast with his writing.

wow this amazing and very well put together. Everything necessary and totally hitting the spot. thank you very much !

excellent lecture

Great lecture. Thank you. I wonder, did Cicero ever write anything in which he addressed the question of whether it is ethical to use false statements for rhetorical purposes? Did he ever defend that the ends were justified by those means?

thank you Dr. Aldrete, I have your Great Course, "History of the Ancient World: A Global Perspective", we need History more than ever : we tend to think that with our technological & informational skills & access, that we are somehow smarter than the ancients..... don't think so...

Pity about the audio. Greg's lecture is much better viewed on The Great Courses Plus. Problem there is their parser. You can use the word, phallus, in a review but clitoris is flagged as profanity 😅 😂 🤣 Greg, however, is simply outstanding!

The Robert Harris Cicero books were great

And on the skill of defamation, the presenter demonstrates a final point, in addition to insinuation and guilt by association, which Cicero himself was not credited with: understatement. Well played.

All that will remain of us is what is written down.

The "resolution" to the dialectic he outlined at the end is a matter of basic taxonomy. One merely has to extrapolate into further strata of existence. Thus, _ontologically_ the superordination of ethics over results is essential. But _Teleologically_ the results _speak for themselves_

Volumes too quiet on this

Well done thanks for sharing

Perfection !

34:10 I saw Obi Wan Kenobi use this very technique in the first Star Wars film.

If the gloves don’t fit, you must acquit!

He’s Hopping around like Rodney Dangerfield

Cicero was a Professional Academic Elitist Bureaucrat who’s skills included making bad decisions, and giving magnificently delivered speeches. Despite being a Lawyer, he had little ethics and was morally incompetent. These characteristics more than likely sealed his fate . He created “Today’s Group Think”. He never admitted fault. He believed he was exempt from serious repercussions, but in Cicero’s case, Death by Assassination, was his fate. Thanks for your talk Emory University.

well to summarize all of this. is to have a charismatic tic sociopath character

So Cicero basically invented all the logical fallacies that get used in politics today

Cant hear.

15:18

Cicero seems like the Al Sharpton of his day.

Cicero's idea of appealing to Pathos is what is missing in bridging the gap of climate change deniers and the anti vaxx crowd. We are appealing to Logos for the mob too much these days. We need a classical Greek Sophist style communication to win the masses over.

Well, I've alway preferred Demosthenes imperatives.

I CANT HEAR YOU

Mild surprise a reaction to gasping :O you’re closing the mouth

Cadeline was probably... what the f... this dude is lying..

So Cicero was a typical lawyer then, results over truth, but claim to be honourable.

Hitler must have studied the classics. Very demonstrative when speaking, whipping this Nazis into a frenzy.

"Humanistic Studies", because humanities is tough to spell for Americans. You guys can never call a spade a spade, can you. You always have to call it something different, like a shovel instead, even though a shovel is for picking up cinders from the ground, not for digging holes like a spade, and anyway, you call it calling a cigar a cigar there for no reason.

no audio

Sleepy Joe Biden

The first secret of persuasive oratory is to make sure that people can actually hear you.

This is literally trumps playbook

This is the level of scholarship we've sunk to. Does everyone have to grind their axe?

I need you to fix your collar.

Someone needs a pink slip

The irony of this video - barely audible!

Oh no. Plump Trump must be a descendent.

To Gregory Jones. Hi Greg, it is pronounced Chichero, like ch for chocolate both times, the first Ci and second ci. The best thing to pronounce something right, ask a person who speaks the language, as in Italian as is the case. I wish ALL young persons ask, especially where foreign language pronunciation is concerned. Regards Tanya.

Very relevant in the Trump era

Cicero sounds like a a more cynical and mendacious version of Demosthenes. Chronologically, how far apart were they? Because that would have bewn a debate for the ages

I didn't know many believed Cicero was the greatest orator of the all time...

The Roman Republic died due to a cancer called 'Oligarchy'. Today we would call it corporatism.

This has Trump written all over

Great insights! Thank you Sir. But I was distracted by the gestures that seemed random, the bouncing head and the open shirt with the hair on the torso showing.

He looks like Penn Gilette with AIDs

Check out my episode 'Rhetoric & Snake Charmers ' YKim