Where to begin. Open the first tutorial — The counterpart of dialectic — and read it through. Then take The three species at difficulty I. A set is ten questions; at difficulty I each is worth ten points, and 100 points finishes the set.

What to do in an exercise. Read the excerpt. Answer. A right answer gains points; a wrong answer loses some. Keys 1–4 choose a multiple-choice option; Enter submits. Where the original Latin or Greek can be displayed, an original-text button shows it. Sources for all texts are given in place.

The special sections. Gorgias’s Helen is a tutorial and a figures set of its own (persuasion as a drug; the four aitiai). Antiphon’s Second Tetralogy is kept as forensic. Some key debates from Thucydides — Archidamus and Sthenelaidas, Cleon and Diodotus, Pericles, Catiline and Caesar — are paired below as well. The texts also include Augustine on the Christian orator and some passages from the Confessions.