Rhetoric: A Timeline
Major Authors and Texts

Antiquity Gorgias
ca. 425 BCE
Plato, Gorgias ca. 385 BCE
Isocrates
fl. 390-338 BCE
Aristotle, Rhetoric
ca. 332 BCE
Anonymous, Ad Herennium
ca. 100 BCE
Cicero, De inventione
ca. 87 BCE
Cicero, De oratore
55 BCE
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
fl. 30-8 BCE
"Longinus"
ca. 50 CE
Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria
95 CE
Hermogenes
fl. 155-225 CE

Middle Ages

Augustine, De doctrina christiana

426
Martianus Capella, The Marriage of Philology and Mercury
429
Boethius, De topicis differentiis
ca. 524
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
ca. 630
Alcuin, Disputatio
ca. 802
Matthew of Vendome, Ars versificatoria
1175
Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Poetria nova
1210
Robert de Basevorn, Forma praedicandi
ca. 1320

Renaissance
   
George of Trebizond, Rhetoricorum libri V ca. 1444
Rhetores Graecae 1508-9
Erasmus, De ratione studii, De copia
ca.1512
Melanchthon, Elements of Rhetoric
1521
Leonard Cox, Arte or Crafte of Rethoryke
1530
Juan Luis Vives, De ratione dicendi
1532
Richard Sherry, A Treatise on Schemes and Tropes
1550
Thomas Wilson, The Arte of Rhetorique
1553
Peter Ramus, Dialectique
1555
Cypriano Soares, De arte rhetorica
1560
Richard Rainolde, The Foundacion of Rhetorike
1563
Henry Peacham, Garden of Eloquence
1577
Abraham Fraunce, The Arcadian Rhetoricke
1588
George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie
1589
Angel Day, The English Secretary
1599
Johanne Spauter [Despauterius], Syntaxis
1623



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