Sentences with phrase «totally classical concept»

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Particularly I'm interested in those historically greyed gradations between what the Greeks called «persuasion» («pathei» if I remember, though I'm probably wrong) and what became, via the Christian concept of «Truth», «honesty», a totally alien concept to the classical world (for no one was capable of «lieing», then)-- to «persuade», even in the 1300's, with «graphs» would have classed you as a mountebank and a charlatan.