Corax (Korax), along with Tisias, was one of the founders of Greek rhetoric. It has sometimes been asserted that they are merely legendary personages. Other scholars contend that Corax and Tisias were the same person, described in one fragment as "Tisias, the Crow" (Corax is Greek for "crow.") Rhetoric (from Greek ρήτωρ, rhêtôr, orator) is one of the three original liberal arts or trivium (the other members are dialectic and grammar) in Western culture. ... Species See text The true crows are in the genus Corvus; they are large Passerine birds. ...

Corax is said to have lived in Sicily in the fifth century BC. During his time, Thrasyulus, the tyrant of Syracuse, was overthrown and a democracy formed. Under the despot, the land and property of many common citizens had been seized; these people flooded the courts in an attempt to recover their property. Sicilian disambiguates here; see also Sicilian language or Sicilian Defence. ... Syracuse, Italy Syracuse, New York Syracuse is the name of two major cities in the world. ...

Corax devised an art of rhetoric to permit ordinary men to make their cases in the courts. His chief contribution was in helping structure judicial speeches into various parts: proem, narration, statement of arguments, refutation of opposing arguments, and summary. This structure is the basis for all later rhetorical theory.

His pupil, Tisias, is said to have developed legal rhetoric further, and he may have been the teacher of Isocrates. Isocrates (436–338 BC), Greek rhetorician. ...

All we know of the work of Corax is from references made by later writers, such as Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero. Plato Plato (Greek: Πλάτων Plátōn) (ca. ... Aristotle, marble copy of bronze by Lysippos. ... Marcus Tullius Cicero (standard English pronunciation ; Classical Latin pronunciation ) (January 3, 106 BC – December 7, 43 BC) was an orator and statesman of Ancient Rome, and is generally considered the greatest Latin orator and prose stylist. ...