Aristotle's rhetoric has had an enormous influence on the development of the art of rhetoric. Not only authors writing in the peripatetic tradition, but also the famous Roman teachers of rhetoric, such as Cicero and Quintilian, frequently used elements stemming from the Aristotelian doctrine. His work and philosophy live even in the 21st Century, as educators look back to concept of the Trivium, of which Rhetoric is the second component.
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Aristotle's rhetoric has had an enormous influence on the development of the art of rhetoric. Not only authors writing in the peripatetic tradition, but also the famous Roman teachers of rhetoric, such as Cicero and Quintilian, frequently used elements stemming from the Aristotelian doctrine. His work and philosophy live even in the 21st Century, as educators look back to concept of the Trivium, of which Rhetoric is the second component.