Cicero’s Lists of Topics From Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages

Abstract

Beginning with the Ciceronian divisions of rhetorical and dialectical topics as found, respectively, in the De inventione (84 BC), the De oratore (55 BC), the Partitiones oratoriae (54 BC) and the Topica (44 BC), the purpose of this study is to collect all the lists that have been transmitted from Antiquity to the early Middle Ages in order to observe — mainly through the help of several diagrams put in the appendix — their alteration, as well as their preservation.