Speaker

A significant role of a public speaker is usually possible only in a democratic society where the capabilities of a skilled speaker are commensurate, and often exceed, the capabilities of warriors, politicians , and businessmen . Cases of seizing power are known due to only eloquence and a beautiful ability to correctly state one’s thoughts.

Although eloquence played a very important role in the history of many cultures (for example, the prophets in Ancient Judea ), it became a profession only in the democratic states of Ancient Greece , since public politics and public court first appeared there. At the same time, a special discipline about oratory , rhetoric , and the profession of a teacher of oratory , a rhetorist, appeared. While the ancient Greek states remained democratic, speakers remained the main figures in the political scene. The same role was played by political speakers in the republican period of Ancient Rome . In the Hellenistic states and the Roman Empire, the speaker ceased to be a political figure, although judicial speakers continued to exist, rhetorical schools worked.

However, with the advent of Christianity - a preaching religion - the situation has changed. And for late antiquity, and for the Middle Ages , and for early New time, a religious preacher is a figure comparable in influence to the king or prince of the church. A textbook example is the sermon of Peter d'Alby , which led to the organization of the first crusade .

In the Renaissance, again, as in late antiquity , the importance of the aesthetic component of oratory increases. A typical figure of the era is a court speaker, writer of panegyrics (as a kind of court writer).

In the era of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, preachers again gain weight .

In modern times, with the transition to a democratic type of government, again the main type of politician becomes a political speaker , the main type of lawyer is a judicial speaker .

Only the second half of the 20th century , with its focus on visual culture, crowds a speaker from the political sphere.

• Political speakers
• Trial Speakers
• Preachers
• Lecturer ( teacher )

• Hoffman V. Oratory // Literary Encyclopedia. - M. , 1929-1939.

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