In Ancient Rome rhetoric enters the I century BC. e .. The originality of Roman rhetoric never differed. Cicero has a considerable number of treatises on oratory (eg, Brutus, He). The most complete expression of Roman rhetoric got in Kvintiliana.
In the Roman rhetoric of the ongoing dispute about azianizme and attitsizme. The first follower was azianizma directions hydrangeas, and subsequently to the primknul Cicero, vocal, however, in some works and to attitsizma. The most elegant attitsizma representative in the Roman literature can be regarded as Julius Caesar.
Development of the material in Roman rhetoric subordinated specific ultimate goal, belief, which differ in three aspects - docere ( learning, report), movere ( encouraged, to bring passion), delectare (entertain, delight). Each of them has been inextricably linked with the rest, but, depending on circumstances, may hold a dominant position. It was inherited and teachings on the development of the five phases of the speech.