According to Dionysius of Halicarnassus, a Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, Demosthenes represented the final stage in the development of Attic prose. Both Dionysius and Cicero assert that Demosthenes brought together the best features of the basic types of style; he used the middle or normal type style ordinarily and applied the archaic type and the type of plain elegance where they were fitting. In each one of the three types he was better than its special masters.* C. Wooten, "Cicero's Reactions to Demosthenes", 39.</ref> He is, therefore, regarded as a consummate orator, adept in the techniques of oratory, which are brought together in his work.