Etexts for COMM 450

Primary Sources in Translation

Isocrates' Against the Sophists in Isocrates, vol. 2, trans. George Norlin, 162-177 (London: Heinemann, 1929)

Plato's Gorgias 447-466

Plato's Phaedrus

Aristotle's The "Art" of Rhetoric (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1926)

Anonymous' Rhetorica ad Herennium (De ratione dicendi)

Cicero's De oratore, books I, II, trans. E. W. Sutton and H. Rackham (London: Heinemann, 1942)

Cicero's De oratore, book III

Eunapius' Lives of Philosophers and Sophists 488-499

St. Augustine, On Christian Doctrine, book 4

Murphy, James J. Three Medieval Rhetorical Arts (Anonymous of Bologna's Principles of Letter-Writing; Geoffrey of Vinsauf's New Poetics; Robert of Basevorn's Form of Preaching)

Secondary Sources

Murphy, James J. Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: A History of Rhetorical Theory from Saint Augustine to the Renaissance