[Filodemo], [Sulla retorica], Libro incerto (PHerc. 1004, coll. 32–84): Introduzione, edizione e commento

This ‘monographic’ paper presents the editio princeps of the first part of PHerc. 1004, almost entirely neglected in Siegfried Sudhaus' edition of Philodemus’ On Rhetoric. We demonstrate that all this first part is divided into two sections: the first directed against an unknown author (possibly a Sophist), the second to Bion of Borysthenes. All these columns precede the section of PHerc. 1004 entirely devoted to the criticism of Diogenes of Babylon and pave the way to the systematic attack of Philodemus against the Stoic concept of rhetoric, possibly extending to the fourth and last part of the book as well, where Aristo is criticised.