Works
- Rhetorical handbooks, now lost (stasis theory and the seven circumstances), 2nd century BCE
In Thinking Tools
Known for
A Greek teacher of rhetoric who systematized stasis theory, the questions that locate the point at issue in a case (whether it happened, what it was, how serious it was, and whether the court should hear it), and the seven circumstances of an act: who, what, when, where, why, in what way, and by what means.
Caveat: His works are lost and known through Cicero, Quintilian, and the pseudo-Augustinian De Rhetorica; the seven circumstances have been traced to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics.