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On Rhetoric
A Theory of Civic Discourse

Second Edition

Aristotle

Translated by George A. Kennedy

Price: £14.99 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-530509-8
Publication date: 3 August 2006
352 pages,

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  • '[an] excellent translation... A must for any school library and anyone interested in techniques of public persuasion' - Journal of Classics Teaching, Issue 12

Description
Based on careful study of the Greek text and informed by the best modern scholarship, the second edition of this highly acclaimed translation offers the most faithful English version ever published of On Rhetoric . Updated in light of recent scholarship, the new edition features a revised introduction--with two new sections--and revised appendices that provide new and additional supplementary texts (relevant ancient works).

Contents
Prooemion
Notes on the Translation
Introduction
A. Aristotle's Life and Works
B. Rhetoric Before Aristotle
C. Aristotle's Classification of Rhetoric
D. Aristotle's Original Audience and His Audience Today
E. The Strengths and Limitations of On Rhetoric
F. Chapter-by-Chapter Outline of On Rhetoric
Book 1: Pisteis, or The Means of Persuasion in Public Address
Book 2: Pisteis, or The Means of Persuasion in Public Address (continued)
Book 3: Delivery, Style, and Arrangement
Appendix I: Supplementary Texts
A. Gorgias' Encomium of Helen
B. Socrates' Critique of Sophistic Rhetoric
C. Lysias' Speech Against the Grain Dealers
D. Introduction to Dialectic from Aristotle, Topics 1.1-3
E. Two Selections from Isocrates
1. From Against the Sophists
2. From the Antidosis
F. Selections from Rhetoric for Alexander
G. On Word Choice and Metaphor, from Aristotle's Poetics
H. Demosthenes' Third Philippic
Appendix II: Supplementary Essays
A. The Earliest Rhetorical Handbooks
B. The History of the Text After Aristotle
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Authors, editors, and contributors


Aristotle
Translated by George A. Kennedy, Paddison Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Emeritus)


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