School of rhetoric

Japanese: 修辞学校 - しゅうじがっこう（英語表記）school of rhetoric

A general term for schools that taught rhetoric, which were common in Greece and Rome from the 4th to 5th centuries BC. The first was founded by Isocrates of Athens around 392 BC, but this type of school spread throughout the Greek cultural sphere with Alexander's eastern expedition and is thought to have taught the theory of eloquence. By around 250 BC, it had been widely adopted in Rome and had been established in major cities throughout the country. Rhetoric was taught initially in Greek and later in Latin, and they served as a secondary and higher educational institution for the common people, in contrast to the widespread elementary grammar schools.

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Japanese:

前4世紀頃から5世紀頃にかけてギリシア，ローマに一般的であった修辞学を教えた学校の総称。アテネのイソクラテスが前 392年頃設立したのが最初とされているが，この種の学校はアレクサンドロスの東征とともにギリシア文化圏に広く行われ，雄弁の理論を教えたと思われる。前 250年頃までにはローマにも盛んに取入れられ，全国の主要都市に設立をみた。初めはギリシア語，のちにはラテン語で修辞学が講じられ，さらに広く存在していた初等の文法学校に対して，庶民の中・高等教育機関の役割を果した。

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