The art of manipulation or persuasion can be seen in only the most skillful of people. Rhetoric is the art that few have mastered. First taught in 600 BC, rhetoric started as a civic art taught by the Sophist circa to persuade people. It was especially used in legal disputes. Aristotle once said, “If there are two definitive features of ancient Greek civilization, they are loquacity and competition.” Aristotle used his words in such a way that make you believe those two simple words describe the whole Greek civilization. He uses the three main elements of rhetoric logos, ethos, and pathos to do this. One important man who sets an example of how to use rhetoric is Mark Antony. Essentially, Mark Antony used pathos as a main benefactor to
