From the Book - Second edition.
Aristotle's life and works
Rhetoric before Aristotle
Aristotle's classification of Rhetoric
Aristotle's original audience and his audience today
The strengths and limitations of On Rhetoric
Chapter-by-chapter outline of On Rhetoric
Book 1 : Pisteis, or the means of persuasion in public address
Book 2 : Pisteis, or the means of persuasion in public address (continued)
Book 3 : Delivery, style, and arrangement
Gorgias' Encomium of Helen
Socrates' critique of Sophistic Rhetoric
Lysias' speech against the grain dealers
Introduction to dialectic from Aristotle, Topics 1.1-3
Two Selections from Isocrates
Selections from Rhetoric for Alexander
On word choice and metaphor, from Aristotle's poetics
Demosthenes' Third Philippic
The earliest Rhetorical handbooks
The history of the text after Aristotle.
