Aristotle · Rhet.

Rhetoric

Aristotle on persuasion — ēthos, pathos, logos, and the art of the orator, in three books.

This edition presents the original Greek (Ross (OCT, 1959)) side by side with English translations (J. H. Freese, W. Rhys Roberts) — with click-to-parse morphology, dictionary entries, and exact Bekker citation. 3 books, 60 chapters.

Read this work

• Freese Greek & English · J. H. Freese (Loeb, 1926)
• Roberts Greek & English · W. Rhys Roberts (Oxford, 1924)

Books

• Book I 15 chapters · 1354a1–1378a15
• Book II 26 chapters · 1377b16–1404a5
• Book III 19 chapters · 1403b6–1420a8

Greek text & translations

Greek: W. D. Ross, ed. Aristotelis ars rhetorica. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959.
Translations: J. H. Freese (Loeb, 1926); W. Rhys Roberts (Oxford, 1924).
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In print

Modern, copyright-protected translations and commentaries we can’t host here, for readers who want to go further:

• TranslationGeorge A. Kennedy, On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse (Oxford University Press, 2nd ed. 2007) Find in print →
• TranslationC. D. C. Reeve, trans., in Aristotle: The Complete Works, 2 vols. (Hackett, 2024) Find in print →

Prefer a paper copy? These in-print editions carry the translation read here (or a revision of it):

• In printJ. H. Freese, Art of Rhetoric, Loeb Classical Library 193 (Harvard University Press; rev. Gisela Striker, 2020) — the print edition of the translation read here Find in print →

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