Art of Rhetoric

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Aristotle, J. H. Freese, Gisela Striker

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Harvard University Press
09 June 2020

History; Classical history & classical civilisation

Series: Loeb Classical Library

Aristotle (384–322 BC), the great Greek thinker, researcher, and educator, ranks among the most important and influential figures in the history of philosophy, theology, and science. He joined Plato's Academy in Athens in 367 and remained there for twenty years. After spending three years at the Asian court of a former pupil, Hermeias, he was appointed by Philip of Macedon in 343/2 to become tutor of his teenaged son, Alexander. After Philip's death in 336, Aristotle became head of his own school, the Lyceum at Athens, whose followers were known as the Peripatetics. Because of anti-Macedonian feeling in Athens after Alexander's death in 323, he withdrew to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died in 322.

Aristotle wrote voluminously on a broad range of subjects analytical, practical, and theoretical. Rhetoric, probably composed while he was still a member of Plato's Academy, is the first systematic approach to persuasive public speaking based in dialectic, on which he had recently written the first manual.

This edition of Aristotle's Rhetoric, which replaces the original Loeb edition by John Henry Freese, supplies a Greek text based on that of Rudolf Kassel, a fresh translation, and ample annotation fully current with modern scholarship.

By: Aristotle
Revised by: Gisela Striker
Translated by: J. H. Freese
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 193
Dimensions: Height: 162mm, Width: 108mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 372g
ISBN: 9780674997325
ISBN 10: 0674997328
Series: Loeb Classical Library
Pages: 528
Publication Date: 09 June 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

John Henry Freese (1852-1930) was Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. Gisela Striker is Walter C. Klein Professor of Philosophy and of the Classics, Emerita, at Harvard University.

Reviews for Art of Rhetoric

If you are lucky enough to be still in school or college and you have not read Rhetoric before, I strongly recommend buying this book and reading it cover-to-cover. -Pennsylvania Literary Journal The Striker rendering is cleaner, pithy, yet recognizable from the still understandable Frese translation. -Paul J. Cain, Lutheran Book Review