ABSTRACT
Because the sources for modern theoretical thinking on argumentation lie in Greek antiquity, it stands to reason that we begin our survey of the historical backgrounds of argumentation theory with a brief reconnaissance of classical logic, dialectic, and rhetoric. These new disciplines evolved in the 6th and 5th centuries B.C. Then the mythological picture of the world began to change, and attempts were made to account for natural phenomena and the genesis of the world in a rational manner, without appealing to the gallery of the gods.
