Kindle-Cicero--Rhetorica-ad-Herennium-(Loeb-Classical-Library-No.-403)-(English-and-Latin-Edition)-(online-PDF)

Kindle Cicero: Rhetorica ad Herennium (Loeb
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Copy link here https://greatfull.fileoz.club/tmi=0674994442 The Rhetorica ad Herrenium
was traditionally attributed to Cicero (106 43 BCE) and reflects as does Cicero s De
Inventione Hellenistic rhetorical teaching. But most recent editors attribute it to an
unknown author.The Greek art of rhetoric was first naturalized at Rome in the time of the
younger Scipio and Latin treatises on the subject were in circulation from the time of the
Gracchi. But the books by Cato Antonius and the other Roman writers have not come
down to us and it is from the second decade of the first century B.C. that we have in the
treatise addressed to Gaius Herennius the oldest Latin Art preserved entire. Like Cicero's
incomplete De Inventione which belongs close to it in time this work reflects Hellenistic
rhetorical teaching. Our author however gives us a Greek art in Latin dress combining a
Roman spirit with Greek doctrine. It is a technical manual systematic and formal in
arrangement its exposition is bald but in greatest part clear and precise. Indeed the writer's
specific aims are to achieve clarity and conciseness and to complete the exposition of his
subject with reasonable speed. He seeks clarity through the use of Roman terms and of
specially selected examples he seeks conciseness by keeping practical needs always in
view by scrupulously avoiding irrelevant matter and by presenting methods and principles
not a host of particular illustrations of a given point.