Rhetoric
Aristotle’s “Rhetoric” is an ancient Greek essay on the art of persuasion. Rhetoric has had a profound impact on the study of rhetoric and communication from ancient times to the modern day. It’s a foundational text for understanding how to construct effective ideas and how to analyze the persuasive efforts of others.
About the Author
Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and tutor to Alexander the Great. His writings on ethics, politics, logic, and poetics · including the Nicomachean Ethics and Poetics · shaped Western thought for centuries.
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Listen to Rhetoric by Aristotle free online. The full audiobook (8 hr 35 min, 9 chapters, read by Geoffrey Edwards) streams free on this page.
Rhetoric (1818) is a public domain work.
| # | Chapter | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Book I Part 1 (Chapters 1-5) | 58:02 | |
| 2 | Book I Part 2 (Chapters 6-10) | 56:47 | |
| 3 | Book I Part 3 (Chapters 11-16) | 55:34 | |
| 4 | Book II Part 1 (Chapters 1-9) | 1:09:06 | |
| 5 | Book II Part 2 (Chapters 10-21) | 1:03:20 | |
| 6 | Book II Part 3 (Chapters 22-28) | 1:09:05 | |
| 7 | Book III Part 1 (Chapters 1-10) | 1:06:32 | |
| 8 | Book III Part 2 (Chapters 11-14) | 38:10 | |
| 9 | Book III Part 3 (Chapters 15-19) | 38:14 |
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