On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse, 2nd Edition

Updated and expanded in light of recent scholarship, the second edition features:

* A revised introduction with two new sections: “The Strengths and Limitations of On Rhetoric” and “Aristotle’s Original Audience and His Audience Today”
* A more user-friendly format: running heads now include book and chapter numbers
* An updated bibliography
* Revised appendices that provide translations of new supplementary texts–Socrates’ Critique of Sophistic Rhetoric; Lysias’ Speech Against the Grain Dealers; two selections from Isocrates (from Against the Sophists and from the Antidosis); selections from Rhetoric for Alexander; and Demosthenes’ Third Philippic–and an extensive revision of George A. Kennedy’s essay “The Earliest Rhetorical Handbooks”