Abstract
Current interpretations of early Greek rhetoric often rely on a distinction between the empirical stage of rhetoric (associated with the sophists) and the theory of rhetoric which was invented by the philosophers Plato and Aristotle. But insofar as the distinction between experience and theory is itself a product of philosophical criticism and reflects the philosophical priorities of the authors who introduced it, its application in the interpretation of pre-Platonic rhetoric is anachronistic. By examining the contexts in which Plato’s and Aristotle’s arguments are cast, I propose to show the ways in which their accounts distort our picture of their predecessors.
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- Rhetorica
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- 2007-01-01
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- 10.1353/rht.2007.0026
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