A 'rhetor' in ancient Rome was similar to a modern day post-secondary teacher or professor. They were often highly educated Greeks who taught their students:
AncientRome did not have a formal system of education. Children of humble background went to school until the age of 10-11. Teachers set up their own classes for a fee. They held theclasseswhere they could, including in the back of shops separated for the rest of the shop by just a curtain and in the street. Elementary classes were run by a teacher called litterator. Children learnt to read and write and basic maths. Children of people who could afford it went to better classes and continued on to the classes run by the grammaticus from the age of 9 to 12 until the age of 14-15. They improved their writing, learnt oration, expressive poetic reading and poetic analysis. Pupils were expected to have some knowledge of spoken and written Greek and classes were both in Latin andGreek.. A small number of children went on to study with the rhetor. They studied rhetoric. If were rich and you wanted to study further, you went to Greece to study philosophy. The children of very rich people had private tuition at home.
Teachers in ancient Greece only educated boys. Girls were educated at home by their mothers. Boys from well-to-do families were sent to school around the age of seven. In Sparta, boys at the age of seven were sent to a city-run military school and stayed in the barracks. In other city-states, each boy was accompanied by a slave called a paidogogos. The slave's job was to insure the child's good behavior. A grammatist taught reading, writing, and simple math. For education in music, a ketharistes taught his students how to play the lyre and an instrument that resembled the oboe. An instructor called a palaestra taught physical education. Most evidence suggests that teachers were poorly paid in early Greece, and they had a low status in society
From the Stone Age to the end of the Middle Ages, most children never went to school at all. They stayed home until they were able to work, and then they worked, at home or in the fields, or in workshops, or in the mines. Only a few children were able to go to school
orator
In the senate, or court, or work as a scribe, or a rhetor.
Language
Rhetoric
Ulrich Berls has written: 'Walter Jens als politischer Schriftsteller und Rhetor'
"Ethos" is used to describe the audience's perception of the rhetor's credibility or authority.
The root word for rhetorical is "rhetor," which comes from the Greek word "rhetorikos," meaning "oratorical or rhetorical."
The art of using language to persuade people to change their views.
The lower level was called the Gramaticus, and the upper level school was called Rhetor. Thus the English terms grammar school and rhetoric.
Ancient Greek: ρήτωρ (transliterated as rhetor, pronounced ree-torr) Modern Greek: ρήτορας (transliterated as rhetoras, pronounced ree-torr-ass)
A rhetorical situation is the context of a rhetorical act, made up (at a minimum) of a rhetor (a speaker or writer), an issue (or exigence), a medium (such as a speech or a written text), and an audience.
Menander. has written: 'La donna di Samo (Hellenica et byzantina neapolitana)' 'The Dyskolos' 'The Samia' 'Menandro' 'Menander Rhetor' -- subject(s): Early works to 1800, Public speaking 'Four Plays Of Menander' 'Menander, The Plays and Fragments' 'La Samia (Guide)'