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Rhetoric

Τέχνη ῥητορική

Busto de Aristóteles (Museo Nacional Romano, Palazzo Altemps)
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The first systematic theory of persuasion. It defines rhetoric as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion and presents it as the counterpart of dialectic. It distinguishes three means of proof — the speaker's character (ethos), the listener's emotions (pathos) and the argument (logos) —, three kinds of speech — deliberative, forensic and epideictic — and analyses the enthymeme and the example. Book II contains a treatise on the emotions that is also a moral psychology; book III studies style, metaphor and the arrangement of a speech.

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Authorship note

A school treatise of the Aristotelian corpus, regarded as authentic. Like the other surviving treatises, it consists of Aristotle's own teaching materials rather than books meant for the public; the arrangement and titles largely derive from Andronicus of Rhodes's edition (first century BCE). Three books; book III, on style, may originally have been a separate work. Bekker 1354a–1420b.

Editions and translations

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English

  • The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation — Aristotle

    The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation

    Princeton University Press, 1984

    Translation: Varios (traducción de Oxford revisada, ed. Jonathan Barnes)

    ISBN 0691016518

    Edición en dos volúmenes (Bollingen Series LXXI.2); ISBN del registro de Open Library de la obra completa.

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  • Art of Rhetoric — Aristotle

    Art of Rhetoric

    Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library, 193), 1926

    Translation: John Henry Freese

    ISBN 9780674992122

    Reimpresión registrada en 2006.

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Griego antiguo

  • Aristotelis Opera, vol. II (ed. Immanuel Bekker)

    G. Reimer / Academia Regia Borussica, 1831

    Edición crítica de referencia; su paginación (Bekker) es el sistema universal de cita.

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Sources

  • Bekker, Immanuel (ed.). Aristotelis Opera, edidit Academia Regia Borussica. 5 vols. Berlín: G. Reimer, 1831–1870 (vols. I–II, texto griego, 1831).

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