Rhetorical devices in Antiphon's "on the Murder of Herodotos"
In this paper Antiphon’s rhetorical strategies in this speech fragment are meticulously analyzed. The piece is placed into context and the tone, use of topic and other commonplaces, use of antithesis, and other methods of persuasion are analyzed. The essay determines that this was a forensic speech using inductive reasoning and a deliberative tone.