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Art of Rhetoric (Hardcover)
Aristotle; Translated by J.H. Freese; Revised by Gisela Striker
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R745
Discovery Miles 7 450
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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.
Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 10643 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator,
politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other
Roman, lived through the stirring era which saw the rise,
dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic.
In his political speeches especially and in his correspondence we
see the excitement, tension and intrigue of politics and the part
he played in the turmoil of the time. Of about 106 speeches,
delivered before the Roman people or the Senate if they were
political, before jurors if judicial, 58 survive (a few of them
incompletely). In the fourteenth century Petrarch and other Italian
humanists discovered manuscripts containing more than 900 letters
of which more than 800 were written by Cicero and nearly 100 by
others to him. These afford a revelation of the man all the more
striking because most were not written for publication. Six
rhetorical works survive and another in fragments. Philosophical
works include seven extant major compositions and a number of
others; and some lost. There is also poetry, some original, some as
translations from the Greek.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Cicero is in twenty-nine
volumes.
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