Vico's bold attempt to found a science of human history and society, arguing that cultures pass through recurring ages. It anticipated later thinking about myth, language, and historical development.
Sources for Vico — The New Science
Vico — The New Science in Rhetoric
Held in the Rhetoric chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Aristotle — Rhetoric (−330)
- Cicero — De Oratore (On the Orator) (−55)
- Quintilian — Institutio Oratoria (The Orator's Education) (95)
- Demosthenes — The Public Orations (−323)
- Longinus — On the Sublime (100)
- Augustine — De Doctrina Christiana (On Christian Doctrine) (397)
- Blair — Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (1783)