Table of Contents

ProoemionNotes on the TranslationIntroductionA. Aristotle's Life and WorksB. Rhetoric Before AristotleC. Aristotle's Classification of RhetoricD. Aristotle's Original Audience and His Audience TodayE. The Strengths and Limitations of On RhetoricF. Chapter-by-Chapter Outline of On RhetoricBook 1: Pisteis, or The Means of Persuasion in Public AddressBook 2: Pisteis, or The Means of Persuasion in Public Address (continued)Book 3: Delivery, Style, and ArrangementAppendix I: Supplementary TextsA. Gorgias' Encomium of HelenB. Socrates' Critique of Sophistic RhetoricC. Lysias' Speech Against the Grain DealersD. Introduction to Dialectic from Aristotle, Topics 1.1-3E. Two Selections from Isocrates1. From Against the Sophists2. From the AntidosisF. Selections from Rhetoric for AlexanderG. On Word Choice and Metaphor, from Aristotle's PoeticsH. Demosthenes' Third PhilippicAppendix II: Supplementary EssaysA. The Earliest Rhetorical HandbooksB. The History of the Text After AristotleGlossaryBibliographyIndex 

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Praise for the previous edition: "[This book] is much more than a translation; it is a guide to the literature, a mini-commentary, and a do-it-yourself manual to understanding Aristotle. . . . [It] deserves to be the standard translation for decades to come."--Quarterly Journal of Speech