Lectures

Here are the lecture notes for each week. The notes will appear each week after we cover the topic. They will be attached as pdf files.

Older Sophists

Lectures for Week 1

Plato's Attack on Rhetoric

Lectures for Week 2

Protagoras and Diotima

Lectures for Week 3

Plato's "True Rhetoric"

Lectures for Week 4

Civic Humanism and Isocrates

Lectures for Week 5

Aristotle on Rhetoric, part 1

Lectures for Week 6

Aristotle on Rhetoric, part 2

Lectures for Week 7

Cicero and Rhetorica Ad Herennium

Lectures for Week 8

Cicero and the True Orator

Lectures for Week 9

Spring Break

Assignments and activities for Week 10

Quintillian and Longinus

Lectures for Week 11

Augustine and Second Sophistic

Lectures for Week 12

Conferences

Assignments and activities for Week 13

Renaissance Rhetoric

Assignments and activities for Week 14

Overview of Non-Western Rhetorics

Lectures for Week 15

Presentations

Assignments and activities for Week 16