Hobbes’s “Translation” of Aristotle’s Rhetoric

• In Event: Ancient Politics, Poetry, and Rhetoric

Brief Overview

Hobbes’s translations make significant, systematic alterations of Aristotle’s Rhetoric. Thus, tracing Hobbes’s alterations to Aristotle’s text provides a new window on Hobbes’s teachings on truth, speech, and politics.

Author

• Michelle Marie Kundmueller, Old Dominion University