Contents

Introduction

ANCIENT RHETORIC

WHY STUDY RHETORIC?

from

Cicero, On the Orator, Book 1

WHAT IS RHETORIC?

from

Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1

Quintilian, Oratorical Instruction, Book 2

THE SYSTEM OF RHETORIC

from

Aristotle, Rhetoric, Books 1, 2 and 3

INVENTION OR DISCOVERY OF ARGUMENTS

from

Rhetoric to Herennius, Book 1

ARRANGEMENT

from

Cicero, On Invention, Book 1

STYLE

from

Rhetoric to Herennius, Book 4

MEMORY

from

Rhetoric to Herennius, Book 3

Quintilian, Oratorical Instruction, Book 11

DELIVERY

from

Quintilian, Oratorical Instruction, Books 6 and 11

RHETORIC AND COGNITION

from

Cicero, On the Orator, Book 3

Quintilian, Oratorical Instruction, Books 8 and 9

RHETORICAL ORNAMENT

from

Cicero, On the Orator, Book 3

THE LIFE OF THE ORATOR

from

Quintilian, Oratorical Instruction, Book 2

Cicero, Brutus

Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists, Book 1

Notes

Chronology

Further Reading

Glossary

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