ARISTOTLE . During the three centuries from theage of See
also:Alexander to that of See also:Augustus the fortunes of
rhetoric were governed by the new conditions of See
also:Hellenism . Aristotle's scientific The method lived on in
the Peripatetic school . Meanwhile See also:period the fashion
of florid declamation or strained conceits Alex fro"' -
prevailed in the rhetorical See also:schools of See also:Asia,
where, amid ender to mixed populations, the pure traditions of
the best Augus-Greek taste had been dissociated from the use of
the tus . Greek language . The " Asianism " of See also:style
which thus came to be constrasted with " Atticism " found
imitators at Rome, among whom must be reckoned the orator
Hortensius (c . 95 B.C.) . See also:Hermagoras of Temnos in See
also:Aeolis (c. to Herma- B.c.) claims mention as having done
much to revive goras. a higher conception . Using both the See
also:practical rhetoric of the See also:time before Aristotle
and Aristotle's philosophical rhetoric, he worked up