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Apollonius of Alabanda, surnamed ho Malakos, was some years older than Apollonius Molon, with whom he has sometimes been confounded. He was a rhetorician, and went from Aiabanda to Rhodes, where he taught rhetoric (Strab. xiv.). Scaevola in his praetorship saw him and spoke with him in Rhodes. He was a very distinguished teacher of rhetoric, and used to ridicule and despise philosophy (Cic. de Orat. i. 17). Whenever he found that a pupil had no talent for oratory, he dismissed him, and advised him to apply to what he thought him fit for, although by retaining him he might have derived pecuniary advantages (Cic. de Orat. i. 28; comp. Spalding, ad Quintil. i., ii., iv.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Hierocles (Hierokles), a Greek rhetorician of Alabanda in Caria, who, like his brother Menecles, was distinguished by that kind of oratory which was designated by the name of the Asiatic, in contrast with Attic oratory. His brother was the teacher of the famous Molo of Rhodes, tile teacher of Cicero, so that Hierocles must have lived about B. C. 100. We do not hear that he wrote any rhetorical works, but his orations appear to have been extant in the time of Cicero. (Brut. 95, Orat. 69, de Orat. ii. 23; Strab. xiv.)
(Hierokles). A rhetorician of Alabanda, in Caria, who lived in the beginning of
the first century before the Christian era. He excelled in what Cicero termed
the Asiatic style of eloquence.
(Menekles). Of Alabanda, a celebrated rhetorician. He and his brother Hierocles
taught rhetoric at Rhodes, where the orator M. Antonius heard them, about B.C.
94.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Nov 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Aridolis, tyrant of Alabanda in Caria, accompanied Xerxes in his expedition against Greece, and was taken by the Greeks off Artemisium, B. C. 480, and sent to the isthmus of Corinth in chains. (Herod. vii. 195.)
Hermogenes. An architect of Alabanda, in Caria, who invented what was called the pseudodipterus, that is, a form of a temple, with apparently two rows of columns, whereby he effected a great saving both of money and labour in the construction of temples. (Vitruv. iii. 2.6, 3.8.) His great object as an architect was to increase the taste for the Ionic form of temples, in preference to Doric temples. (Vitruv. iv. 3.1.) He was further the author of two works which are now lost; the one was a description of the temple of Diana which he had built at Magnesia, a pseudodipterus, and the other a description of a temple of Bacchus, in Teos, a monopterus. (Vitruv. vii. Praef. § 12.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Nov 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Leo of Alabanda, in Caria, a rhetorical and historical writer of uncertain date. He wrote the following
works, now lost:
1. Karikon Biblia d, De rebus Cariae Libri quatuor;
2. Lukiaka en Bibliois b', De rebus Lyciae, Libri duo;
3. Ho hieros polemos Phokeon kai Boioton, Bellum Sacrum inter Phocenses et Boeotos;
4. Techne, Ars (sc. Rhetorica); and
5. Peri staseon, De Statibus, or De Seditionibus.
In Villoison's edition of Eudocia the last two works are mentioned as one, the
title of which is Techne peri staseon, Ars de Statibus. If the above list of the
works of Leo be correct, we may conjecture that he lived not far from the time
of Alexander the Great, that is, after the close of the Sacred War, of which he
wrote the history and before the local history of Caria and Lycia had lost its
interest by the absorption of those provinces in the Syrian and Pergamenian kingdoms,
and subsequently in the Roman empire. It is to be observed, however, that the
authority of the Sacred War and of the work De Statibus is doubtful, as Suidas
and Eudocia enumerate works under those titles among those of Leo of Byzantium.
Vossius supposes that either Leo of Alabanda or Leo of Byzantium is the writer
referred to by Hyginus (Astron. Poetic. c. 20), as having written a work on the
history of Egypt.
(Suidas, s. v. Deon Alabandeus; Eudocia, Violetum, s. v. Deon Halabandeus; Fabric.
Bibl. Graec. vol. vi. p. 132, vol. vii. p. 713; Voss. de Hist. Graec. Lib. iii.
p. 179).
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2006 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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