Encomium, Invective & Comparison: Book VI
18 lessons that persuade as to what is or is not. Lessons include Aphthonius' Encomium on Thucydides plus Encomiums on Individuals (Chaucer and Dante), Encomium on a virtue (God's Love, Wisdom), Encomium on Nature (tiger), Invectives on an individual (Philip, Judas Iscariot, and Saddam Hussein), Invectives on a vice (lying, abortion), Invective on Nature (grasshopper), Comparison of individuals (Achilles/Hector, Paul/Peter, Jesus/John the Baptist, Adolf Hitler/Saddam Hussein), Comparison of Vice and Virtue (Humility/Pride), and Comparison in Nature (winter/spring). ~ Janice