Text tradition of Aristotle’s on rhetoric: from Post-Aristotelian Athens to Rome
Text tradition of Aristotle’s on rhetoric: from Post-Aristotelian Athens to Rome

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to investigate the reception of Aristotle Rhetoric in the Roman rhetoric culture. The reception of cultural ideas is usually based on texts. Therefore, the history of Aristotle Rhetoric in later times helps to uncover the transcendence of ideas. The study is based on ancient sources that provide information on the history of Aristotle's esoteric works, as well as the sources of ancient rhetoric in which Aristotle's Rhetoric deals in a general rhetorical context and reflects the reception of Aristotle's rhetorical ideas. In this regard, the texts of particular importance are two Ciceron treatises (De oratore, De inventione) and Rhetorica ad Herennium. The discussion of Aristotle's influence on Roman rhetoric (especially Cicero's treatise De oratore) focuses on the similarities and differences between perceptions and interpretations of correlated concepts in Greek and Roman cultures, which can give an answer as to why the influence of Aristotle's Rhetoric on the Roman rhetoric tradition was relatively small.

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