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