Training in rhetoric - the art of persuasion - formed the basis of Education in the Roman Empire.
Rabbinic literature adopted and adapted various aspects of.
The roles of the Talmudic Rabbis as public orators, teachers, and jurists, parallel that of Roman orators.
The Classical intellectual world centered around the debate between philosophers, who boasted knowledge of objective reality, and sophists, who could debate both sides of any issue and who attracted large audiences and paying students.
Training in rhetoric - the art of persuasion - formed the basis of Education in the Roman Empire