The “Art” of Rhetoric

by Aristotle

Publishers:

William Heinemann; G. P. Putnam’s Sons

, 1926

Overview

This volume contains John Henry Freese’s translation of all three books of Aristotle’s The “Art” of Rhetoric.

Contents

Top Highlights

“Now the proofs furnished by the speech are of three kinds. The first depends upon the moral character of the speaker, the second upon putting the hearer into a certain frame of mind, the third upon the speech itself, in so far as it proves or seems to prove.” (Page 17)

“chiefly to accuracy (ὀρθοέπεια), those of the latter to beauty (εὐέπεια), of style.” (Page viii)

“ Hence the three kinds of rhetoric are: (1) deliberative; (2) forensic; (3) epideictic.” (Page xxxiii)

Product Details

• Title: The “Art” of Rhetoric
• Author: Aristotle
• Series: The Loeb Classical Library: English
• Publishers: William Heinemann, G. P. Putnam’s Sons
• Print Publication Date: 1926
• Logos Release Date: 2018
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Rhetoric, Ancient
• Resource ID: LLS:RTFRHTRC
• Resource Type: text.monograph.ancient-manuscript.translation
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:48:23Z

About Aristotle

Aristotle (384–322 BC) was born in the Greek colony of Stagirus, on the coast of Thrace. When he was 17, Aristotle went to Athens, where he studied under Plato at the Academy for 20 years. Following the death of Plato, and due to Aristotle’s divergence from platonic ideas, Aristotle left the Academy. He was later hired by Philip of Macedonia as a tutor for his son, Alexander (who would grow up to become Alexander the Great). After tutoring Alexander for five years, Aristotle returned to Athens and founded the Lyceum as a rival to Plato’s Academy. Because he was in the practice of walking while he taught, his followers became known as peripatetics, a Greek word meaning “to walk about.”

Known as the father of logic, Aristotle was the first philosopher to develop a system of reasoning. He was also the first to classify human knowledge into specific disciplines (e.g. mathematics, biology, etc.). He is most famous known for rejecting the platonic theory of forms, setting up a dichotomy that has dominated philosophy to this day.