Corax devised an art of rhetoric to permit ordinary men to make their cases in the courts. His chief contribution was in helping structure judicial speeches into various parts: proem, narration, statement of arguments, refutation of opposing arguments, and summary.

This paper aims to contribute to the discussion on corax, the first judicial argument that tradition attributes to two rhetoricians, Tisias and Corax. First, the paper addresses the historiographical questions about the identity of Tisias and Corax,

Corax—as any Byzantine schoolboy could have told you—was a Sicilian from Syracuse, the inventor of rhetoric (defined by him. as the art of persuasion). He taught his discovery to another Sicilian,

Corax (flourished 5th century bc, Sicily) is a Syracusan believed to have written the first Greek treatise on rhetoric. There is little reliable information about Corax’s life or his work, of which nothing survives. He was active at a time when democratic constitutions had replaced tyrannies in …

A L asting tradition among the ancients marked Sicily as the birthplace and Tisias and Corax as inventors of the art of rhetoric: and in this tradition, legendary though it became, there is a stricter truth than in most of the stories related about the foundation of invented arts.

Corax: Your Honors, I, too, stand humbly before you. I, too, recognize, in years far more experienced than that of my adversary, your outstanding record of prudent and just decision making on behalf of those whose cause is just.

Corax （ Κόπαξ ), a Sicilian, who, after the expulsion of Thrasybulus from Syracuse (B. C. 467), by his oratorical powers acquired so much influence over the citizens, that for a considerable time he was the leading man in the commonwealth.

2009年9月23日 · Founder of Greek Rhetoric (Corax) and his pupil (Tisias) devised an art of court defense for ordinary people to follow to defend land in the harrowing times under the tyrant Thrasybulus at Syracuse. (Prose, Narration, Argument, Refutation, Summary)

An overview of how LLMs like GPT work and a consideration of whether they should be considered rhetorical agents is offered and structural and argumentative similarities in classical theorizations of rhetoric and the philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars are considered.

Certainly Corax, the founder of rhetoric, was teaching about the year 466 B.C., and composed a τέχνη, or handbook of rhetorical principles (Arist., Rhet., ii. 24. 11.