📚 Ancient Rhetoric

Books with ancient rhetoric on their catalogue record, first published between 1493 and 2020, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject ancient rhetoric in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 2,290 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Συμπόσιον	Plato	1559	351
	Φαῖδρος	Plato	1792	138
	On the sublime	Longinus	1612	113
	Selected works	Cicero	1493	69
	Institutiones oratoriae	Quintilian	1515	58
	De oratore	Cicero	1755	58
	Rhetoric	Aristotle	1515	29
	Longinus On the Sublime; the Greek text edited after the Paris manuscript, with introduction, translation, facsimiles and appendices, by W. Rhys Roberts	Cassius Longinus	1742	29
	Institutio oratoria	Quintilian	1538	28
	Problems	Aristotle	1926	16
	On literary composition	Dionysius of Halicarnassus	1702	9
	Συμπόσιον / Φαῖδρος	Πλάτων	1993	9
	Classical Greek rhetorical theory and the disciplining of discourse	David M. Timmerman	2010	8
	Rhetores latini minores	Karl Halm	1863	7
	The Dialogues of Plato / The Seventh Letter	Πλάτων	1952	7
	Handbuch der literarischen Rhetorik	Lausberg, Heinrich.	1960	7
	Aphthonii Progymnasmata	Aphthonius	1586	5
	Dionysius Longinus On the sublime	Longinus	1752	5
	Decotgrel	Marco A. Gutiérrez	2013	5
	Plato	David Sansone	2020	5
	Aphthonii Progymnasmata	Aphthonius	1615	4
	Rhetores selecti	Thomas Gale	1676	4
	Rhetores latini minores	Karl Halm	1863	4
	An introduction to Aristotle's Rhetoric	Edward Meredith Cope	1867	4
	Rhetorica	Philodemus of Gadara	1892	4
	Sophistik und rhetorik	Heinrich Gomperz	1912	4
	Technika opisów w "Metamorfozach" Owidiusza	Jerzy Danielewicz	1971	4
	Ancient rhetorics for contemporary students	Sharon Crowley	1994	4
	An introduction to the classics	Anthony Blackwall	1725	3
	On the sublime	Longinus.	1778	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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