In the “Encomium of Helena” Rosamond Kent Sprague explains how one of the characters; Gorgius vigorously defended Helen's evil actions. Kent organized his ideas systematically in an attempt to save Helen from her community's accusations, as everyone accused her of causing war and suffering to her community. She uses highly persuasive language to convince her audience that she was 100% not guilty, even as she accepts that she was not ignorant. His language is rich in the use of metaphors and similes which while speaking with great purpose to convince the audience. Gorgius had a well-structured flow of ideas; he began by convincing the audience of his speech to his opinion by obliterating Helen's detractors. He began his speech in such a way as to create an image for the audience of his detractors as immoral, ignorant and unreasonable and in this way wins the audience to his side from the very beginning. As Kent states: “For my part, by introducing some reasoning into my speech, I wish to free the accused from guilt, and, after having reproached her detractors as prevaricators and demonstrated the truth, free her from their ignorance.” (Sprague 50) .He also began his speech in a way that makes people believe his words by stating the fact that the city brings manpower, the body brings beauty, the soul brings wisdom, actions bring virtue and the word brings truth: search therefore to convince the public to believe in his speech without doubting it. In his defense strategy. Gorgius begins by acknowledging all the possible reasons that might have caused Helen to take her actions, as he explains, "because either by will of fate and decision of the gods and vote of necessity she did what she did, or by diminished force or by w ...... half of the paper ......ch never referred to what Helen said as a sin or misfortune, but instead continues to define her sins as "what she also did." introduced his argument by stating that she was taken away, but never accompanied the trip abroad Whenever he referred to his accusers, he called them detractors to create a negative image in the minds of his listeners he conveyed his message to the reader with an organized and remarkably tidy structure of ideas. To convince the readers, the author uses persuasive language made of metaphors, similes and repetitions. He also took a firm position throughout the article, succeeding thus gaining a notable audience. Works Cited Rosamond KS The Most Ancient Sophists: A Complete Multi-Handed Translation of the Fragments.” South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press. 1972. Print.