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''This entry is not about the Hellenistic Ionian architect [[Hermogenes of Priene]]'' |
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'''Hermogenes''' of [[Tarsus]], was a Greek rhetorician, surnamed '''the polisher'''. He lived in the reign of [[Marcus Aurelius]] (AD [[161]]-[[180]]). |
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His precocious ability secured him a public appointment as teacher of his art while he was only a boy; but at the age of twenty-five his faculties gave way, and he spent the remainder of his long life in a state of intellectual impotence. |
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During his early years, however, he had composed a series of rhetorical treatises, which became popular text-books, and the subject of subsequent commentaries. We still possess some sections: |
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*on legal issues |
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*on the invention of arguments |
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*on various kinds of style |
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*on the method of speaking effectively |
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*on rhetorical exercises. |
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[[Category:Ancient Romans]] |
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