Comparing Greek Mythology And The Titan Mnemosyne

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I thought that this would be an interesting time to bring up Greek Mythology, and the Titan Mnemosyne. Mnemosyne was the Titaness of long memory. She had the power to remember everything. I guess you could say Mnemosyne was the earliest example of someone with an eidetic memory, for lack of better words. She was frustrated that no one else, whether they be mortal or god, had a memory quite as good as hers. She decided that she needed to develop a way of sharing her gift of memory with the mortal world. Her first step was naming everything on earth. She walked the earth and assigned a title to every single object and being. With that, she developed the ability for humans to communicate. Then she encouraged them to form their simple dialogue into a language. According to Greek mythology, this was the beginning of the oral tradition and storytelling. The ancient Greeks were so happy with their new ability to communicate that they called Mnemosyne the first philosopher. Her daughters, the Muses, took it a step further and created the alphabet and grammar. It was the most important gift to the mankind because it gave them the potential endless memory

If art is the function of, and process of, using creativity and imagination to produce something new, then I do not see any way in which you could argue that rhetoric is not art. Rhetoric is a skill. What is art if not a skill? I believe that, “rhetoric is the art of winning the soul by discourse.” I also believe that, “rhetoric is the art of speaking well.” I think that Plato and Quintilian were pretty much saying the same thing, but I like how broad their statements are. They do not try to define rhetoric as much as George Kennedy, or Lloyd Bitzer. I think that they leave room for interpretation, so that the rhetorician can be the artist without having to abide by rules and