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Fronto of Emesa was a famous
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rhetorician Rhetoric () is the art of persuasion, which along with grammar and logic (or dialectic), is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuade, or motivate parti ...
and uncle of Cassius Longinus. Fronto taught rhetoric in
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. He was born in
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. He died in Athens, aged about 60.


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