Zeno of Citium
Art (Handbook of Rhetoric)
Written work
Art (Handbook of Rhetoric)
Τέχνη
A lost work, probably a handbook of rhetoric or dialectic. Cicero and Sextus Empiricus credit Zeno with comparing dialectic to the closed fist and rhetoric to the open hand, which may have come from this work or another.
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Authorship note
Lost work. Only the title survives, in Diogenes Laertius' list (VII 4), and in some cases indirect testimonies.
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Other works by Zeno of Citium
- Republic (Politeia) · 310
- On Impulse, or On Human Nature
- Fragments and testimonies · 1905
- On Life according to Nature
- On the Passions
- On the Appropriate (Duty)
- On Law
- On Greek Education
- On Vision
- On the Whole (the Universe)
- On Signs
- Pythagorean Questions
- Universals (General Questions)
- On Diction
- Homeric Problems (5 books)
- On Listening to Poetry
- Solutions
- Refutations (2 books)
- Memoirs of Crates
- Ethics
- On Reason (Discourse)
- On Substance
- On the Soul
- Art of Love
- Diatribes (Interludes)
- Chreiai (Anecdotes)
- Letter to King Antigonus · 276
Sources
- Diógenes Laercio. Vidas y opiniones de los filósofos ilustres, libro VII, 1–160 (Zenón y la doctrina estoica), s. III d. C. Trad. inglesa de R. D. Hicks, Loeb Classical Library 185, 1925 (Wikisource en inglés); texto griego en Wikisource griega; trad. de C. D. Yonge, Bohn, 1853 (Project Gutenberg n.º 57342).
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