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American Rhetoric site. Focused primarily on oral rhetoric, this site offers a detailed overview of rhetoric, including a section “For Scholars” that looks at Plato and Aristotle on Rhetoric and “Cool Exercises” on rhetoric for students. http://www.americanrhetoric.com/

Bibliographies in Rhetorical Theory and Criticism. This list out of Wake Forest University provides links focused around different areas of rhetoric, categorized according to Rhetorical Theory and Criticism, American Public Discourse, and Ancient Theories of Rhetoric. http://www.wfu.edu/~zulick/biblist.html

The Forest of Rhetoric: Silva Rhetoricae. Created by Dr. Gideon Burton, this site offers a comprehensive overview of classical rhetoric. http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/silva.htm

A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms. Created by Armstrong Atlantic State University, this glossary provides definitions and in many cases examples of rhetorical terms. http://www.nt.armstrong.edu/terms.htm

A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples. This page, created by the University of Kentucky’s Classics Department, offers both definition and examples of a long list of terms from classical rhetoric (from alliteration to zeugma). http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/rhetoric.html

Image Finder. This resource from the Berkeley Digital Library provides access to search engines at several different online archives, including the Library of Virginia Digital Collections and the Smithsonian Institution Photographs. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/ImageFinder/

Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry. This excerpt from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy offers a thorough discussion of four of Plato’s dialogues, the Ion, the Republic, the Gorgias, and the Phaedrus, specifically in relation to his theories of poetry and rhetoric. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato-rhetoric/

Quintilian on Rhetoric. This site offers an overview of Quintilian’s theories of rhetoric. http://www.msu.edu/user/lewisbr4/980/rhetrric.html

Rhetoric Timeline. This Website provides a detailed timeline of major authors and works of rhetoric (many linked to on-line editions) from Antiquity through the Renaissance. Part of the Forest of Rhetoric. http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Primary%20Texts/Timeline.htm




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