Rhetoric to Alexander

The Rhetoric to Alexander (also widely known by its title in Latin: Rhetorica ad Alexandrum; Ancient Greek: Τέχνη ῥητορική) is a treatise traditionally attributed to Aristotle. It is now generally believed to be the work of Anaximenes of Lampsacus.^[1]

Authorship

Quintilian seems to refer to this work under Anaximenes' name in Institutio Oratoria 3.4.9, as the Italian Renaissance philologist Piero Vettori first recognized. This attribution has, however, been disputed by some scholars.

Content

As the sole complete manual on rhetoric still extant from the ancient Greek world, Rhetoric to Alexander gives us an invaluable look into the rhetorical world that Aristotle responded to.

Notes

References

• Ian Worthington, A Companion to Greek Rhetoric, Wiley-Blackwell, 2006, ISBN 9781405125512

See also

• Rhetoric (Aristotle)
• Rhetorica ad Herennium

External links

• Greek text, edited by Immanuel Bekker, Oxford 1837
• Greek text with Latin commentary edited by Leonhard von Spengel, Leipzig, 1847
• English translations: Aristotle's Rhetoric to King Alexander (London, 1686); De Rhetorica ad Alexandrum, translated by E.S. Forster, Oxford, 1924 (beginning on p. 231 of the PDF file)