Religious, poetic and argumentative persuasion in the Helen of Gorgias

My contribution for the VU conference Inventive Theology: Rhetoric and the Politics of Believing on Wednesday 26 and Thursday 27 October at the Singelkerk in Amsterdam is here available.

Except Virtue

"And if it be objected that one who uses such power of speech unjustly might do great harm, that is a charge which may be made in common against all good things except virtue, and above all against the things that are most useful, as strength, health, wealth, generalship. A man can confer the greatest of benefits by a right use of these, and inflict the greatest of injuries by using them wrongly." (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book I)