“You Are Being Lied To“: A Rhetorician’s Toolkit for Effective Persuasion

This presentation is based on an updated version of an old but evergreen lecture I gave almost a decade ago featuring the figures of rhetoric and their use in literature, modern politics, marketing, activism, etc. #rhetoric #figuresofrhetoric #classics #literature #trivium #education #humanism Thumbnail: Allegory of Eloquence, Albrecht Dürer (1486-1528) (Creative Commons 4.0 courtesy of © The Trustees of the British Museum.) Support The Modern Hermeticist - - Picatrix: A Medieval Treatise on Astral Magic (PSU Press, 2019) ​(affiliate link) - Marsilio Ficino: On the Christian Religion (UTP, 2022) (affiliate link) - PayPal tip jar: - BTC: 3P8BmGE5UNJ8nehxkaq9MtDcY6EavQhTjN - Official Website: - Socials: