Curated category
Rhetoric theorists
- George OrwellEric Arthur Blair arrived in the world on the 25th of June 1903 within a house in Motihari, Bengal Presidency. His family belonged to what he called the…
- PlatoPlato was born between 428 and 423 BC into an aristocratic Athenian family. His mother Perictione descended from Solon, the statesman credited with laying…
- AristotleAristotle was born in 384 BC in the city of Stagira, located about 55 kilometers east of modern-day Thessaloniki. His father Nicomachus served as the…
- Augustine of HippoIn 354, Augustine was born in the small North African town of Thagaste. His mother Monica was a devout Christian who prayed constantly for his conversion.
- John MiltonJohn Milton was born on the 9th of December 1608 in Bread Street, London. His father, also named John Milton, had moved to London around 1583 after being…
- Michel FoucaultPaul-Michel Foucault was born on the 15th of October 1926 in the city of Poitiers, west-central France. He entered a prosperous, socially conservative family…
- QuintilianMarcus Fabius Quintilianus arrived in the world around 35 AD within the town of Calagurris, now known as Calahorra in La Rioja.
- ProtagorasIn the year 490 BC, a man named Protagoras lived in the coastal city of Abdera. He worked as a porter carrying heavy loads across the marketplace.
- Francis BaconFrancis Bacon was born on the 22nd of January 1561 at York House near Strand in London. He entered Trinity College at the University of Cambridge on the 5th…
- Dionysius of HalicarnassusDionysius of Halicarnassus arrived in Rome after the civil wars ended, settling there during the reign of Emperor Augustus.
- Edward GibbonEdward Gibbon was born on the 8th of May 1737 in the town of Putney, Surrey. He entered the world as a sickly infant who described himself later as "a puny…
- Juan Luis VivesOn the 6th of March 1493, a boy named Juan Luis Vives was born in Valencia to a family that had converted from Judaism to Christianity decades before.