Rhetorica ad Herennium

Caplan, H. (1954). Rhetorica ad Herennium. Harvard University Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1954

Link

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Rhetorica_ad_Herennium/4B%2A.html

Cited from

rhetoric

Cited by

3 citations across 3 artifacts.

Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.

Primes

• Memory Palace (Method of Loci)
  • The anonymous Rhetorica ad Herennium (c. 90 BCE) provides the earliest surviving detailed exposition.

    This sourceEarliest surviving detailed exposition of the method of loci; systematic treatment of palace construction, location selection, and image formation for classical orators. earliest detailed systematic treatment of loci method

Domain-specific

• Chiasmus
  • Kennedy's "Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country" is the canonical modern English instance; Cicero's "I do not live to eat, but eat to live" is the classical one

    This sourceThe classical source of the crossed ‘eat to live’ exemplum — the Rhetorica ad Herennium’s “esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas”, given there as its illustration of commutatio and reported in the Loeb introduction as a remark attributed to Socrates.

    Supported in partVerified against the work's full text

    “VOLUMES I [[CICERO]] AD C. HERENNIUM DE RATIONE DICENDI (RHETORICA AD HERENNIUM) WITH AN [ENGLISH] TRANSLATION”

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• Symploce
  • The Rhetorica ad Herennium names the combination “Interlacement” in its English translation and gives both question–answer and accusatory examples.

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