If you want to get at the roots of contemporary advertising, you may need to go back about 2,000 years. It was Aristotle who first coined the three artistic proofs that are at heart of rhetoric and ...
More than 2,000 years ago, in The Art of Rhetoric, Aristotle outlined “The Rhetorical Triangle”— Ethos, Pathos and Logos. These were, he said, the best methods to persuade an audience: Through the ...