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Technomage posted an update 4 years, 11 months ago
What’s the best (or a good) translation of Aristotle’s Rhetoric?
Thanks.
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Well if you’re looking for parallel Greek and English texts, I always recommend the Loeb Classical library. You can buy the individual volumes (the whole series is QUITE expensive).
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Thanks! I don’t know Greek, but I want to improve my speaking skills the old-fashioned way and someone on the forum recommended Aristotle’s Rhetoric, so I just want to make sure I don’t get a bad translation. I will look for the Loeb Classical Library. Thanks again!
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I read The Art of Rhetoric by Penguin classics years back and remember it was helpful for me to map language approaches in speaking and to consider audience first and foremost. The one drawback for me was that it gave me hope that I could get through to any audience. However, over the course of the years I have realized to pick my battles/audiences. Though I can look on this book as a first step I used to forage my way from introversion into the extroversion world. Back then I had become a manager and think it helped me structuralize arguments across a desk without emotions. Before then I had always leaned on emotive language and animation. Now I am colder and more direct and have gained credibility though perhaps too straightforward.
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Rommel, thanks for your input. I wound up getting the classic translation W. Rhys Roberts. It’s a short book, but it’s quite dense and requires a lot of rereading of passages. I’m only 15 pages into it.
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