Note 1 — Chapter II · THE RHETORIC OF ARISTOTLE
Reading edition
Text, edited with notes, commentary, and index, Cope, E. M., and Sandys, J. E., 3 volumes, Cambridge, 1877.
Translations (the best recent ones in English), Welldon, J. E. C., with analysis and critical notes, London, 1886; Jebb, R. C., edited with introduction and supplementary notes by Sandys, J. E., Cambridge, 1909. Welldon’s tabular view is valuable. Jebb’s rendering of technical terms is generally more discerning.
Criticism. Aristotle having engaged the attention of nearly every important writer on rhetoric—and of many quite unimportant—for over two thousand years, a list of the commentaries and criticisms would be endless and bewildering. Nor would any addition here to the bibliographies already available be especially suggestive. The history of Aristotle’s Rhetoric will emerge incidentally throughout this work. The best single exegesis in English, especially of the relations of the Rhetoric to the Aristotelian philosophy, remains E. M. Cope’s Introduction to Aristotle’s Rhetoric, London, 1867.