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GADARA (Ancient city) JORDAN
(Theodoros). An eminent rhetorician of the age of Augustus,
was a native of Gadara. He settled at Rhodes, where Tiberius, afterwards emperor,
during his retirement (B.C. 6- A.D. 2) to that island, was one of his hearers.
He also taught at Rome. Theodorus was the founder of a school of rhetoricians
called "Theodorei."
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
Apsines. A Greek rhetorician of Gadara, who taught at Athens in the first half of the third century A.D., and wrote a valuable treatise on rhetoric, and also a work on the questions usually discussed in the schools of the rhetoricians. These two treatises are printed in the Rhetores Graeci, by Walz, ix.
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
Apsines of Gadara in Phoenicia, a Greek sophist and rhetorician, who flourished in the reign of Maximinus, about
A. D. 235. He studied at Smyrna under Heracleides, the Lycian, and afterwards
at Nicomedia under Basilicus. He subsequently taught rhetoric at Athens, and distinguished
himself so much that he was honoured with the consular dignity (Suidas, s. v.;
Tzetzes. Chil. viii. 696). He was a friend of Philostratus (Vit. Soph. ii. 33.4),
who praises the strength and fidelity of his memory, but is afraid to say more
for fear of being suspected of flattery or partiality. We still possess two rhetorical
works of Apsincs:
1. Peri ton meron tou politikou logou techne, which was first printed by Aldus
in his Rhetores Graeci, under the incorrect title techne petorike peri prooimion,
as it is called by the Scholiast on Hermogenes. This work, however, is only a
part of a greater work, and is so much interpolated that it is scarcely possible
to form a correct notion of it. In some of the interpolated parts Apsines himself
is quoted. A considerable portion of it was discovered by Rhunken to belong to
a work of Longinus on rhetoric, which is now lost, and this portion has consequently
been omitted in the new edition of Walz in his Rhetores Graeci.
2. Peri ton eschematismenon problematon, is of little importance and very short.
It is printed in Aldus' Rhetor. Graec., and in Walz. Rhetor. Graeci.
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
(Philodemos). A native of Gadara, in Palestine, an Epicurean philosopher and epigrammatic poet, contemporary with Cicero. The Greek Anthology contains thirty-four of his Epigrams, which are chiefly of a light and amatory character, and which quite bear out Cicero's statements concerning the licentiousness of his matter and the elegance of his manner. Considerable remains of Philodemus have come to light at Herculaneum, and are edited by Sudhaus.
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
(Menippos). A Greek philosopher of Gadara in Syria, who flourished about B.C. 250. He was originally a slave, and afterwards an adherent of the Cynic School of philosophy. His writings (now completely lost) treated of the follies of mankind, especially of philosophers, in a sarcastic tone. They were a medley of prose and verse, and became models for the satirical works of Varro (hence called Saturae Menippeae), and afterwards for those of Lucian.
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
Menippus : Various WebPages
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