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Rhetoric

Aristotle

J. H. Freese (1926)

Aristotle's Rhetoric (fourth century BC) is the founding work in the theory of persuasion, defining rhetoric as the faculty of discovering 'the available means of persuasion' in any given case. Across three books it analyzes the three modes of proof—the character of the speaker (ethos), the emotions of the audience (pathos), and the argument itself (logos)—together with the three kinds of oratory (deliberative, forensic, and epideictic) and the elements of style and arrangement. The translation is J. H. Freese's, from the 1924 Loeb Classical Library edition.

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Contents

1. Book I
   1. Chapter 1
   2. Chapter 2
   3. Chapter 3
   4. Chapter 4
   5. Chapter 5
   6. Chapter 6
   7. Chapter 7
   8. Chapter 8
   9. Chapter 9
   10. Chapter 10
   11. Chapter 11
   12. Chapter 12
   13. Chapter 13
   14. Chapter 14
   15. Chapter 15
2. Book II
   1. Chapter 1
   2. Chapter 2
   3. Chapter 3
   4. Chapter 4
   5. Chapter 5
   6. Chapter 6
   7. Chapter 7
   8. Chapter 8
   9. Chapter 9
   10. Chapter 10
   11. Chapter 11
   12. Chapter 12
   13. Chapter 13
   14. Chapter 14
   15. Chapter 15
   16. Chapter 16
   17. Chapter 17
   18. Chapter 18
   19. Chapter 19
   20. Chapter 20
   21. Chapter 21
   22. Chapter 22
   23. Chapter 23
   24. Chapter 24
   25. Chapter 25
   26. Chapter 26
3. Book III
   1. Chapter 1
   2. Chapter 2
   3. Chapter 3
   4. Chapter 4
   5. Chapter 5
   6. Chapter 6
   7. Chapter 7
   8. Chapter 8
   9. Chapter 9
   10. Chapter 10
   11. Chapter 11
   12. Chapter 12
   13. Chapter 13
   14. Chapter 14
   15. Chapter 15
   16. Chapter 16
   17. Chapter 17
   18. Chapter 18
   19. Chapter 19