Traditional Rhetorical Theory
James P. Zappen
Selected Bibliography
The Sophists
Consigny, Scott. Gorgias: Sophist and Artist. Studies in Rhetoric/Communication. Columbia:
University of South Carolina Press, 2001.
Havelock, Eric A. The Liberal Temper in Greek Politics. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale
University Press, 1957.
Kerferd, G. B. The Sophistic Movement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
McComiskey, Bruce. Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric. Rhetorical Philosophy and
Theory. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002.
The Older Sophists. Ed. Rosamond Kent Sprague. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press,
1972.
Schiappa, Edward. The Beginnings of Rhetorical Theory in Classical Greece. New Haven,
Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1999.
---. "Did Plato Coin Rhêtorikê?" American Journal of Philology 111 (1990): 457-70.
---. Protagoras and Logos: A Study in Greek Philosophy and Rhetoric. Studies in
Rhetoric/Communication. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1991.
---. "Rhêtorikê: What's in a Name? Toward a Revised History of Early Greek Rhetorical
Theory." Quarterly Journal of Speech 78 (1992): 1-15.
Socrates/Plato
Adkins, Arthur W. H. Merit and Responsibility: A Study in Greek Values. Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1960.
Benardete, Seth. The Rhetoric of Morality and Philosophy: Plato's Gorgias and Phaedrus.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
Benitez, Eugenio. "Argument, Rhetoric, and Philosophic Method: Plato's Protagoras."
Philosophy and Rhetoric 25 (1992): 222-52.
Brickhouse, Thomas C., and Nicholas D. Smith. Plato's Socrates. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1994.
Derrida, Jacques. The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond. Trans. Alan Bass.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Irwin, Terence. Classical Thought. Vol. 1 of A History of Western Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, OPUS Book, 1989.
---. Plato's Ethics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Kahn, Charles H. "Did Plato Write Socratic Dialogues?" In Essays on the Philosophy of
Socrates, ed. Hugh H. Benson, 35-52. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
---. "Drama and Dialectic in Plato's Gorgias." Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 1 (1983):
75-121.
---. "On the Relative Date of the Gorgias and the Protagoras." Oxford Studies in Ancient
Philosophy 6 (1988): 69-102.
---. Plato and the Socratic Dialogue: The Philosophical Use of a Literary Form. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Kastely, James L. Rethinking the Rhetorical Tradition: From Plato to Postmodernism. New
Haven, Yale University Press, 1997.
Nightingale, Andrea Wilson. Genres in Dialogue: Plato and the Construct of Philosophy.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Penner, Terry. "Socrates and the Early Dialogues." In The Cambridge Companion to Plato, ed.
Richard Kraut, 121-69. Cambridge Companions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Plato. Gorgias. In Lysis, Symposium, Gorgias, trans. W. R. M. Lamb, 247-533. Vol. 3 of Plato.
Loeb Classical Library, vol. 166. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1925.
---. Phaedrus. In Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, trans. Harold North Fowler,
405-579. Vol. 1 of Plato. Loeb Classical Library, vol. 36. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard
University Press, 1914.
---. Protagoras. In Laches, Protagoras, Meno, Euthydemus, trans. W. R. M. Lamb, 85-257. Vol.
2 of Plato. Loeb Classical Library, vol. 165. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University
Press, 1924.
Neel, Jasper. Plato, Derrida, and Writing. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1988.
Robinson, Richard. Plato's Earlier Dialectic. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1953.
Rossetti, Livio. "The Rhetoric of Socrates." Philosophy and Rhetoric 22 (1989): 225-38.
Vlastos, Gregory. Socrates, Ironist and Moral Philosopher. Cornell Studies in Classical
Philology. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1991.
Wardy, Robert. The Birth of Rhetoric: Gorgias, Plato and Their Successors. Issues in Ancient
Philosophy. London: Routledge, 1996.
Yunis, Harvey. Taming Democracy: Models of Political Rhetoric in Classical Athens. Rhetoric
and Society. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1996.
Zappen, James P. The Rebirth of Dialogue: Bakhtin, Socrates, and the Rhetorical Tradition.
Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004.
Aristotle
Aristotle. The "Art" of Rhetoric. Trans. John Henry Freese. Loeb Classical Library, vol. 193.
London: William Heinemann, 1926.
---. The Nicomachean Ethics. Trans. H. Rackham. Rev. ed. Loeb Classical Library, vol. 73.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1934.
---. On Interpretation. In The Categories, On Interpretation, trans. Harold P. Cooke; Prior
Analytics, trans. Hugh Tredennick, 111-79. Loeb Classical Library, vol. 325. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1938.
---. On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse. Trans. George A. Kennedy. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1991.
---. Posterior Analytics. In Posterior Analytics, trans. Hugh Tredennick; Topica, trans. E. S.
Forster, 1-261. Loeb Classical Library, vol. 391. London: William Heinemann, 1960.
---. Prior Analytics. In The Categories, On Interpretation, trans. Harold P. Cooke; Prior
Analytics, trans. Hugh Tredennick, 181-551. Loeb Classical Library, vol. 325. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1938.
Evans, J. D. G. Aristotle's Concept of Dialectic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.
Farrell, Thomas B. Norms of Rhetorical Culture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
Gage, John T. "An Adequate Epistemology for Composition: Classical and Modern
Perspectives." In Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse, ed. Robert J. Connors,
Lisa S. Ede, and Andrea A. Lunsford, 152-69, 281-84. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University
Press, 1984.
Halloran, S. Michael. "Aristotle's Concept of Ethos, or If Not His Somebody Else's." Rhetoric
Review 1 (1982): 58-63.
Haskins, Ekaterina V. Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle. Studies in
Rhetoric/Communication. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004.
McKeon, Richard. Introduction to Aristotle. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973.
---. "The Uses of Rhetoric in a Technological Age: Architectonic Productive Arts." In The
Prosepct of Rhetoric: Report of the National Developmental Project, ed. Lloyd F. Bitzer and
Edwin Black, 44-63. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1971.
Miller, Carolyn R. "The Aristotelian Topos: Hunting for Novelty." In Rereading Aristotle's
Rhetoric, ed. Alan G. Gross and Arthur E. Walzer, 130-46. Carbondale: Southern Illinois
University Press, 2000.
---. "Aristotle's 'Special Topics' in Rhetorical Practice and Pedagogy." Rhetoric Society Quarterly
17 (1987): 61-70.
Raymond, James C. "Enthymemes, Examples, and Rhetorical Method." In Essays on Classical
Rhetoric and Modern Discourse, ed. Robert J. Connors, Lisa S. Ede, and Andrea A. Lunsford,
140-51, 280-81. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984.
Reynolds, Nedra. "Ethos as Location: New Sites for Understanding Discursive Authority."
Rhetoric Review: 11 (1993): 325-38.
Cicero
Cicero on Oratory and Orators, trans. or ed. J. S. Watson, with a new preface by Richard Leo
Enos. Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University
Press, 1970, 1986.
Quintilian
Quintilian on the Teaching of Speaking and Writing: Translations from Books One, Two, and
Ten of the Institutio Oratoria, ed. James J. Murphy. Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987.
Selected Readings and Surveys
Bizzell, Patricia, and Bruce Herzberg. The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times
to the Present. Boston: St. Martin's Press, Bedford Books, 1990.
Conley, Thomas M. Rhetoric in the European Tradition. New York: Longman, 1990.
Enos, Richard Leo. Greek Rhetoric before Aristotle. Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press,
1993.
Kennedy, George A. Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to
Modern Times. 2nd ed. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
---. Comparative Rhetoric: An Historical and Cross-Cultural Introduction. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1998.