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Abstract: This article offers an overview of the reception of Aristotle's Rhetoric and its audiences in and since its own time until the present day. It defines the three types of audience under consideration: Who was listening to or reading the treatise? What implied audiences did their versions of it envisage and construct responsively (or not) to Aristotle's implied audiences, internal and external? And who were the people in the audiences who did ultimately hear the speeches of those who had consulted Aristotle? It then summarises the major stages in the reception of the treatise from later antiquity through the Byzantine, Arabic and western Middle Ages, to its first Latin translations and printed editions in the Renaissance. Aristotle's Rhetoric is currently enjoying an efflorescence both in and beyond the Academy, especially in education, despite some challenges from postcolonial legal thinkers to its continuing relevance.
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- Rhetorica
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- 2025-01-01
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- 10.1353/rht.2025.a965117
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