Rhetorical Theory and Practice in the 18th-19th Centuries Georgia According to the First Georgian Textbooks of Rhetoric

Abstract

It is important to review the first textbooks of rhetoric in order to better understand the history of the rhetorical studies 18th-19th Centuries in Georgia. Nowadays we know the following textbooks: Mkhitar Sebastatsi’s1 “Rhetoric” translated from Armenian around 1761-1764 by Anton Bagrationi, Philippe Kaitmazishvili and Dositheos Cherkezishvili. The next one is Solomon Dodashvili’s “Rhetoric” written in 1827-1828. The following book is “A Brief Review of Rhetoric” published 1879 by the Antuan Gvazaliani’s Printing House in Constantinople.