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[--] Corax came up with the first theory of persuasion that dealt with courtroom speaking.
[385-322 B.C.] Aristotle thought of communication as an art or craft and as an area of study; communication in tyerms of an orator or speaker constructing an arqument to be presented to an audience.
[427-347 B.C.] Plato propounded the need to study the nature of words, of human beings and their way of approaching life, of the nature of order, of the inctsuments by which human beings are affected.
[106-43 B.C.] Cicero thought of communication as both an academic and practical matter that includes those in the domain of the social science.
[35-95 A.D.] Quintillian was remembered primarily as an educator an synthesizer, bringing together in his writing the previous 500 hundred years' thinking about communication.
[CLASSICAL PERIOD] The notion toward communication was critical to virtually all aspects of human life.
[MEDIEVAL and RENAISSANCE] Saw a reverse of the unity and direction that has characterized the previous era.
[--] Augustine united the practical and theoretical aspects of communication by applying it to the interpretation of the Bible.
[18th and 19th century] Emphasis in communication studies was placed on written argument and literature.
[1892] Formation of the National Association of Elocutionists.
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