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Strabo, Plutarch, Porphyry and the Transmission and Composition of Aristotle's Rhetoric-a Hunch
From: Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Date: 20060101
Author:McAdon, Brad
Scholars who have been writing recently about the unity and composition of Aristotle's Rhetoric make either brief or no mention of the transmission and editorial history of Aristotle's texts. This essay addresses this void by first presenting and discussing Strabo's, Plutarch's, and Porphyry's ac counts of the transmission and editorial history of Aristotle's and Theophrastus' texts in conjunction with discussing the list of works that Diogenes Laertius ascribes to both authors. Once the transmission and editorial history is considered, evidence is presented from the Rhetoric that may indicate ...
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