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Originally Posted by Ea
Thats mighty generous of you, Sor. Thank you 
Especially given that Platons Symposion is the only thing I know well of the classical literature...  |
If you have time or inclination for it, do read the rhetoric. You can download it from MR or just buy a pocket book. I kept a cheap copy in my rucksack for years. Actually in French. It is very profound without being religious (which would mix in irrational). It has the purpose of training a lawyer or a politician to convince other people or to win a cause, and myself, I do not care at all for these things. In order to do so, among other things, he examines the emotive motors of our opinions ... There are many other things in the book. But just this part makes it a masterpiece, so actual, even if conceived 2300 years ago. They are the first chapters of the second book.