Trivium (liberal arts)

From the Latin, trivium (tres: "three" and vía: "way", "way") is the set of three ways.

In Antiquity and the Middle Ages, three of the seven liberal arts related to the eloquence: grammar, rhetoric and dialectics (or logic) of Rhetoric. In the medieval universities, the trivium included the three basic aspects of Rhetoric: The grammar as mechanics of the language; the logic (or dialectics) which is the "mechanics" of thinking and analysis; and the rhetoric which involves the verbal mechanics of a language in order to instruct and to persuade. In the medieval Scholasticism, they were considered camps preparing for the quadrivium which includes arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy.

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