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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]]). |
'''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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Revision as of 17:29, 29 April 2004
This entry is not about the Hellenistic Ionian architect Hermogenes of Priene
Hermogenes of Tarsus, was a Greek rhetorician, surnamed the polisher. He lived in the reign of Marcus Aurelius (AD 161-180).
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.
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:
- on legal issues
- on the invention of arguments
- on various kinds of style
- on the method of speaking effectively
- on rhetorical exercises.