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Fuchs, Thorsten [German version] A. Introduction: Initial Situation (CT) Classical Antiquity has been influential until the present, not only in language, art and culture, but also through its writing. The writing of the modern West, including most computer fonts, are rooted in the scripts of the Roman world which, together with Arabic numerals, form the foundation of international communication. One can not speak of a Roman script as such in Antiquity. Derived from West Greek and Etruscan alphabets, two…

Fuchs, Andreas (Jena) [German version] A. Introduction (CT) In the ancient world, loci or topoi were used in dialectical and rhetorical reasoning in order to ascertain suitable arguments and thus to attain the goal of the argumentation (Cicero defines loci as argumenti sedes, the seats of an argument, that is, places where it can be found; Cic. Top. 2, 8). Topoi, which in Aristotle were at first defined as methods and forms, were increasingly also set by content [27. 234-237]. They could then also, as in Cicero and the Rhetorica ad Herennium, be used for amplification, for deliberati…