Taking advocacy seriously

Let it be confessed, and stressed, that the purpose of the above arguments has not been to persuade readers to accept or acquiesce in any of the theoretical positions described above.

It has been a rhetorical purpose, in the sense and tradition of ancient rhetoric: to talk them into a frame of mind and induce them to view more positively and with greater respect that side of the Roman legal order which consisted in arguing the instant case. It is enough to have shown that in the most modern age persuasion can be taken seriously by people looking at fundamentals of human communication.^[66] The art of the advocates was inuentio, and it helped to ensure that in the clash of argument, the agon, the armouries of both sides should be as copious and powerful as possible.^[67]

CHAPTER II

More on the topic Taking advocacy seriously:

1. Advocacy in present-day courts
2. For comparison: advocacy at Athens and in the Hellenistic world
3. Advocacy and legal orders
4. The uses of advocacy to client and advocate
5. Advocacy for mooters
6. Crook J.A.. Legal advocacy in the Roman world. Cornell University Press,1995. — 228 p., 1995
7. CHAPTER I The Function of Advocacy
8. CHAPTER IV Advocacy in the traditional material
9. Advocacy in the legal order during the Roman period receives plentiful illumination in the traditional literary sources -
10. CHAPTER III Advocacy in the papyri: the under-exploited source
11. Contents
12. The boundaries of the subject: the legal order broadly conceived
13. Cheating
14. CHAPTER V The historical record
15. Excursus 1. Terminology
16. Excursus 4. Quintilian
17. The threat to internal order
18. Status, pay, the “decline of oratory”, and terminology