# Printed Aristotle Rhetoric 2.20 treats Aesopic fable as a deliberative example

Date: 1926

## The fact

Standard English Aristotle editions print Rhetoric 2.20 grouping Aesopic fables with invented examples used in public argument. The dated carrier is the modern edition.

## Context

Fable as public example can support argument by the weak and can also dress elite speech.

[Aesop](/people/aesop) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

An official or archival page and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Aristotle, Rhetoric 2.20 — Perseus (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Aristot.+Rh..20; Perseus Digital Library / Tufts).

## Significance

A textbook example is not a franchise. It is a documented civic-speech tool in the received corpus.

A textbook example is not a franchise. It is a documented civic-speech tool in the received corpus.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Aesop: https://factrail.ai/people/aesop

## Drivers

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://oxfordre.com/classics/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.001.0001/acrefore-9780199381135-e-122
- https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Aristot.+Rh.+2.20

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ae-aristotle-rhetoric-fable