josiahdegraaf's review against another edition
5.0
The only rhetoric textbook a classical school should ever need (I exaggerate slightly... but not much). Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric has everything. And it's all brilliant. I've been using this (Book I particularly) as my 11th grade writing curriculum this year, and it's amazing. This translation (Waterfield) in particular is much easier for my students to grasp than other translations out there, and it doesn't take much to turn his advice here into a series of really practical writing assignments.
Thousands of years after its publication, it still may be the best work on rhetoric out there. I learned a lot reading through this and will be heavily using this moving forward whenever I teach high school Rhetoric. A++ work.
Rating: 4.5-5 Stars (Extremely Good).
Thousands of years after its publication, it still may be the best work on rhetoric out there. I learned a lot reading through this and will be heavily using this moving forward whenever I teach high school Rhetoric. A++ work.
Rating: 4.5-5 Stars (Extremely Good).
vincentreadswordsandletters's review against another edition
5.0
Easy to understand and simple starter for this science of rhetoric. I love defining too, thanks Aristoteles.
billythepoet's review against another edition
3.0
Rating Aristotle seems completely arbitrary. It is not something you like or dislike, nor something most people would read for funsies.
filipmagnus's review against another edition
5.0
I was not surprised to discover that many of writing's postulates can be discovered in Aristotle's 'The Art of Rhetoric'. This was not an easy book to read, but an interesting one - most of the topics are still widely viable methods, used in writing and in courtrooms, alike.
Aristotle, who is one of the finest minds of Western culture (the case could be made that he's one of its forefathers), has a knack for putting a finger on all kinds of concepts, and his explanations are both simple and all-encompassing.
Aristotle, who is one of the finest minds of Western culture (the case could be made that he's one of its forefathers), has a knack for putting a finger on all kinds of concepts, and his explanations are both simple and all-encompassing.