Rhetoric’s domain after the collapse of athens has changed in several ways. Rhetorics focus seems to have shivted away from being just a methodology of argument and one that is used in a political context. It has stayed the same in the Roman empire in its use in politics, and law, but there seems to be a large shift to its use in promoting religious values or beliefs.  The use of rhetoric in the Roman Empire has placed a high value on the promotion of christianity. This new religion  had influenced rheotric in general inside rome.