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Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Xenophon, Anaximenes of Lampsacus, Ctesias, Ephorus, Theopompus, Callisthenes, Cleitarchus, Philistus, Cratippus of Athens, Hegesias of Magnesia, Eudemus of Rhodes, Onesicritus, Hecataeus of Abdera, Marsyas of Pella, Leon of Pella, Ephippus of Olynthus, Aristobulus of Cassandreia, Heracleides of Cyme, Chares of Mytilene. Excerpt: Anaximenes (Ancient Greek: ) of Lampsacus (c. 380 320 Be was a Greek rhetorician and historian. Rhetorical works Anaximenes was a pupil of Zoilus and, like his teacher, wrote a work on Homer . As a rhetorician, he was a determined opponent of Isocrates and his school. He is generally regarded as the author of the Rhetoric to Alexander, an Art of Rhetoric included in the traditional corpus of Aristotle 's works. Quintilian seems to refer to this work under Anaximenes' name in Institutio Oratoria 3.4.9, as Petrus Victorius first recognized. This attribution has, however, been disputed by some scholars. The hypothesis to Isocrates' Helen mentions that Anaximenes, too, had written a Helen, "though it is more a defense speech ( apologia ) than an encomium," and concludes that he was "the man who has written about Helen" to whom Isocrates refers (Isoc. Helen 14). Jebb entertained the possibility that this work survives in the form of the Encomium of Helen ascribed to Gorgias: "It appears not improbable that Anaximenes may have been the real author of the work ascribed to Gorgias." According to Pausanias (6.18.6), Anaximenes was "the first who practised the art of speaking extemporaneously." He also worked as a logographer, having written the speech prosecuting Phryne according to Diodorus Periegetes (quoted by Athenaeus XIII.591e). The "ethical" fragments preserved in Stobaeus ' Florilegium may represent "some philosophical book." Historical works Ana...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with 4th-Century BC Historians; Xenophon, Anaximenes of Lampsacus, Ctesias, Ephorus, Theopompus, Callisthenes, Cleitarchus, Philistus. To get started finding 4th-Century BC Historians; Xenophon, Anaximenes of Lampsacus, Ctesias, Ephorus, Theopompus, Callisthenes, Cleitarchus, Philistus, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Xenophon, Anaximenes of Lampsacus, Ctesias, Ephorus, Theopompus, Callisthenes, Cleitarchus, Philistus, Cratippus of Athens, Hegesias of Magnesia, Eudemus of Rhodes, Onesicritus, Hecataeus of Abdera, Marsyas of Pella, Leon of Pella, Ephippus of Olynthus, Aristobulus of Cassandreia, Heracleides of Cyme, Chares of Mytilene. Excerpt: Anaximenes (Ancient Greek: ) of Lampsacus (c. 380 320 Be was a Greek rhetorician and historian. Rhetorical works Anaximenes was a pupil of Zoilus and, like his teacher, wrote a work on Homer . As a rhetorician, he was a determined opponent of Isocrates and his school. He is generally regarded as the author of the Rhetoric to Alexander, an Art of Rhetoric included in the traditional corpus of Aristotle 's works. Quintilian seems to refer to this work under Anaximenes' name in Institutio Oratoria 3.4.9, as Petrus Victorius first recognized. This attribution has, however, been disputed by some scholars. The hypothesis to Isocrates' Helen mentions that Anaximenes, too, had written a Helen, "though it is more a defense speech ( apologia ) than an encomium," and concludes that he was "the man who has written about Helen" to whom Isocrates refers (Isoc. Helen 14). Jebb entertained the possibility that this work survives in the form of the Encomium of Helen ascribed to Gorgias: "It appears not improbable that Anaximenes may have been the real author of the work ascribed to Gorgias." According to Pausanias (6.18.6), Anaximenes was "the first who practised the art of speaking extemporaneously." He also worked as a logographer, having written the speech prosecuting Phryne according to Diodorus Periegetes (quoted by Athenaeus XIII.591e). The "ethical" fragments preserved in Stobaeus ' Florilegium may represent "some philosophical book." Historical works Ana...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with 4th-Century BC Historians; Xenophon, Anaximenes of Lampsacus, Ctesias, Ephorus, Theopompus, Callisthenes, Cleitarchus, Philistus. To get started finding 4th-Century BC Historians; Xenophon, Anaximenes of Lampsacus, Ctesias, Ephorus, Theopompus, Callisthenes, Cleitarchus, Philistus, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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