Platonic/Socratean: Gorgias, Phaedrus; the Sophists

• Apology (apologia/defense)
• Why Socrates Died (2009) – On the court system
• Why Socrates Died (2009) – A Cock for Asclepius
• Paraphrase of Gorgias’ treatise
• The Great Speech of Protagoras
• Commentary on Protagoras
• Antiphon
• Dissoi Logoi with commentary
• John Poulakos (1994), “Toward a Sophistic Definition of Rhetoric”
• Edward Schiappa (2003), “Toward an Understanding of Sophistic Theories of Rhetoric” 
• Edward Schiappa (2003), “Protagoras and Logos”
• Edward Schiappa (1999), “Beginnings of Rhetorical Theories”
• Jacques Derrida, “Plato’s Pharmacy” (Part 1)
• Jacques Derrida, “Plato’s Pharmacy” (Part 2)

Isocrates

• Alcidamas, Against those who write speeches
• Charles Hendrick (2003), “Writing and the Athenian Democracy”
• Richard Enos (2001), “Ancient Greek Writing Instruction”
• Isocrates on pedagogy, theory, and style
• Erika Rummel (1994), “Isocrates’ Ideal of Rhetoric: Criteria of Evaluation” 
• Stephen Halliwell (1997), “Philosophical Rhetoric or Rhetorical Philosophy? The Strange Case of Isocrates”
• Ekaterina Haskins (2000), “Paideia versus Techne: Isocrates’s Performative Conception of Rhetorical Education”
• Werner Jaeger (1994), “The Rhetoric of Isocrates and Its Cultural Ideal”

Aristotle

• The organization of Aristotle’s Rhetoric
• To become enthymematic
• Species and genres
• Lawrence Green (1995), “Aristotle’s Enthymeme and the Imperfect Syllogism”
• Brad McAdon (2003), “Probabilities, Signs, Necessary Signs, Idia, and Topoi: The Confusing Discussion of Materials for Enthymemes in the Rhetoric“
• Douglas Walton (2001), “Enthymemes, Common Knowledge, and Plausible Inference”
• James McBurney (1994), “The Place of Enthymeme in Rhetorical Theory”
• Lloyd Bitzer (1959), “Aristotle’s Enthymemes Revisited”
• Lysias 24 (trans. Andrew Wolpert & Konstantino Kapparis, 2011), “On the Suspension of the Benefit of the Disabled Man”
• Unpacking Aristotle’s Ethos
• Kristine Bruss & Richard Graff (2005), “Style, Character, and Persuasion in Aristotle’s Rhetoric“
• Manfred Kraus, “Ethos as a Technical Means of Persuasion in Ancient Rhetorical Theory”
• William Grimaldi (1990), “The Auditor’s Role in Aristotelian Rhetoric”
• Carnes Lord (1981), “The Intentions of Aristotle’s ‘Rhetoric'”
• Eugene Garver (2009), “Aristotle on the Kinds of Rhetoric”
• Michael Edwards (1994), “Demosthenes”
• Aristotle on Style
• James Fredal (2001), “The Language of Delivery and the Presentation of Character: Rhetorical Actions in Demosthenes’ Against Meidias“
• Richard Graff (2001), “Reading and the ‘Written Style’ in Aristotle’s Rhetoric“
• Richard Graff (2005), “Prose versus Poetry in Early Greek Theories of Style”

Roman rhetoric: Cicero, Quintillian

• Rhetorica ad Herennium
• George Kennedy/Richard Graff (2015), “Cicero’s First Oration Against Catiline”
• Richard Enos (1994), “Cicero Latinizes Hellenic Ethos“
• Elaine Fantham (1997), “The Contexts and Locations of Roman Public Rhetoric”
• Per Fjelstad (2003), “Restraint and Emotion in Cicero’s De Oratore“
• Jean Goodwin (2001), “Cicero’s Authority”
• John Kirby (1997), “Ciceronian Rhetoric: Theory and Practice”
• James May, Brill’s Companion to Cicero: Oratory and Rhetoric
• James Murphy (2001), “The Key Role of Habit in Roman Writing Instruction”
• Alice Christ (1997), “The Masculine Ideal of ‘the Race that Wears the Toga'”
• Christopher Johnstone (2001), “Communicating in Classical Contexts: The Centrality of Delivery”
• Francisco Pina Polo (2011), “Public Speaking in Rome: A Question of Auctoritas”
• Richard Lanham (1993), “The Q Question”
• Michael Leff (1998), “Cicero’s Pro Murena and the Strong Case of Rhetoric”
• Manfred Kraus (2007), “Rehearsing the Other Sex: Impersonation of Women in Ancient Classroom Ethopoeia”
• Teresa Morgan, “A Good Man Skilled in Politics: Quintilian’s Political Theory”
• Art Walzer (2006), “Moral Philosophy and the Rhetoric in the Institutes: Quintilian on Honor and Expediency”
• Art Walzer, “Quintilian’s Vir Bonus and the Stoic Wise Man”
• Joy Connolly (2007), “Virile Tongues: Rhetoric and Masculinity”
• Anthony Corbeill (2004), “Political Movement” Walking and Ideology in Republican Rome”
• Jody Enders (1997), “Delivering Delivery: Theatricality and the Emasculation of Eloquence”
• Amy Richlin (1997), “Gender and Rhetoric: Producing Manhood in the Schools”
• Melissa Rothfus (2010), “The Gens Togata: Changing Styles and Changing Identities”
• Richard Graff and Michael Leff (2005), “Revisionist Historiography and Rhetorical Tradition(s)”