Essential Readings on Rhetoric

Essential Readings on Rhetoric offers a compendium of key primary works related to the study of rhetoric. Tracing the expositions on rhetoric from Ancient Greece and Rome, the Middle Ages, and a brief examination of contemporary rhetorical thought, Essential Readings on Rhetoric explores the main thinkers and ideas behind the classical discipline of rhetoric. It includes chapters on: Rhetoric in Ancient Greece & Rome, Rhetoric in the Middle Ages, Rhetoric in the Enlightenment era, Rhetoric in the contemporary era

Joseph P. Zompetti is a professor in the School of Communication at Illinois State University. He has written extensively in the area of debate, argumentation, and rhetoric including several IDebate Press books and many articles on rhetorical theory and criticism.