" The word is a powerful sovereign, with a tiny body and completely invisible, divine business done. You can, for example, end the fear, banish sorrow, joy or intensify produce compassion. "
Gorgias, "I commend Helena " To analyze the effect that the words occur in certain circumstances, Gorgias makes the following analogy: words are the soul and body medicine. With words you can grieve, heal, happy, sick, dope, another chemical and the same effects. Gorgias of Lentini lived a hundred and eight years, and when I came the fatal moment, uttered these words: "I Hypnos (sleep) begins to give me his brother Thanatos (death)" . Thanatos is the dream of ever awake.
The first news of his life that relate to an embassy sent by lentineses Athens, in order to obtain military assistance against Syracuse. The head of the mission was Gorgias, as presented in the agora of Athens dressed in purple from head to foot and causing the admiration of the crowd.
rhetoric or the art of seduction with the word born in Sicily. And Gorgias of Lentini was his teacher, and to excuse most censored women of antiquity, the beautiful Helena, suspected cause of the Trojan War, said he was delighted by the words of her lover.
"I commend Helena" is more than just defending a reviled figure. Gorgias Rhetoric In this piece purports to explain (and justify) what, until then, unjustified: the innocence of Helena when he was seduced by Paris. Who knows what he said? Although it is rather a tribute to the word, a demonstration of the art of modeling the opinion applied to a fact that most take for granted (the guilt of Helena) and yet manages to Gorgias question beautiful words. It shows the power of conviction oratory speech, vital instrument to play the art of persuasion.
Plato called the rhetorical "snake charmers." Gorgias refutes the four main charges that are made.
If Helena went to Troy for a divine this would be blameless, as the fates can not be challenged by mortals.
If Helena was violently abducted , you can not rebuke for that reason, since it would not have been Helena will therefore not be in fault, but rather should be pitied.
In the event that his departure had been the result of persuasion word, it would also be acquitted, as the spell eloquent work in the listener the same way as if it were taken against their will, because has the power to confuse the view of the soul as needed, regardless of whether or not truly said.
Finally, if Helena fled with Alejandro sake, nor should he incriminate it, since love is unpredictable and has a divine nature that gives primacy on other matters of the soul.
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