Art of Rhetoric, 9780674997325
Hardcover
Master persuasion: Aristotle’s timeless guide to compelling public speaking.

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  • Hardcover

    528 pages

  • Release Date

    8 June 2020

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Summary

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 sc…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780674997325
ISBN-10:0674997328
Author:Aristotle, J.H. Freese, Gisela Striker
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Imprint:Harvard University Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:528
Release Date:8 June 2020
Weight:372g
Dimensions:162mm x 108mm x 25mm
Series:Loeb Classical Library
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Critics Review

The Striker rendering is cleaner, pithy, yet recognizable from the still understandable Frese translation.

If you are lucky enough to be still in school or college and you have not read Rhetoric before, I strongly recommend buying this book and reading it cover-to-cover. * Pennsylvania Literary Journal *The Striker rendering is cleaner, pithy, yet recognizable from the still understandable Frese translation. – Paul J. Cain * Lutheran Book Review *

About The Author

Aristotle

John Henry Freese (1852–1930) was Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge.

Gisela Striker is Walter C. Klein Professor of Philosophy and of the Classics, Emerita, at Harvard University.

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