A technical and philosophical treatise that scientifically develops the laws of rhetoric and the phenomena arising from them.

Book III: External elements and technique of rhetorical discourse. Linguistic expression, rhythm, style. Proper arrangement of speech. Key observations on the history and main characteristics of the Greek language.

Aristotle, son of the physician Nicomachus, was born in Stagira in 384 BC. Information about the early years of his life is scarce. At the age of seventeen, he went to Athens to study at the Platonic Academy. There he stayed for twenty years, from 367 to 348 BC, until Plato's death. Then Aristotle left for Assos in Troad and after a three-year stay there, he went to Lesbos and then to Macedonia, where he took on the education of the royal child Alexander.

When his student ascended to the throne, Aristotle settled in Athens and founded his school, the Lyceum. After Alexander's death (323 BC), the philosopher's stay in Athens became difficult. He was forced to flee to Chalcis, his mother's homeland, where he died in 322.

A universal spirit, Aristotle created a vast and valuable body of philosophical and scientific work. Epistemology, logic, theology, physics, biology, psychology, ethics, political philosophy, and aesthetics are the main fields of knowledge he explored and studied.

The Alexandrian Hermippus estimated Aristotle's works to be 400. We have preserved lists that include 143 titles of his works. Diogenes Laertius estimated the number of lines in the Aristotelian treatises to be 440,000. The influence of his work on the formation of global thought has been, for centuries, and remains, strong.

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