Aristotle's Rhetoric

by Loeb Classical Library, Unknown Author

A foundational text in Western philosophy, Aristotle's Rhetoric significantly impacts subsequent thought across philosophical, political, and literary domains. It explores language's role as both a medium and instrument for crafting persuasive arguments, detailing practical and aesthetic elements and their optimal integration in oral or written presentations. Aristotle underscores language's role in fostering precision and clear thinking. Once considered the pinnacle of intellectual pursuits, blending logical principles with other learned knowledge, Aristotelian rhetoric remains relevant today, focusing on argument development. His speech composition and interpretation analyses provide valuable insights into contemporary communication styles, from ads to news reports.

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The Loeb Classical Library (LCL; named after James Loeb) is a series of books, today published by Harvard University Press, which presents important works of ancient Greek and Latin literature in a way designed to make the text accessible to the broadest possible audience, by presenting the original Greek or Latin text on each left-hand page, and a fairly literal translation on the facing page. The General Editor is Jeffrey Henderson, holder of the William Goodwin Aurelio Professorship of Greek Language and Literature at Boston University.