Apsines

Apsines

Apsines of Gadara (fl. 3rd century AD) was a Greek rhetorician. He studied at Smyrna and taught at Athens, gaining such a reputation that he was raised to the consulship by the emperor Maximinus. He was a rival of Fronto of Emesa, and a friend of Philostratus, the author of the "Lives of the Sophists", who praises his wonderful memory and accuracy.

Two rhetorical treatises by him are extant: [Greek: technae raetorikae] ,a handbook of rhetoric greatly interpolated, a considerable portionbeing taken from the "Rhetoric" of Longinus; and a smallerwork, [Greek: perhi eschaematismenon problaematon] , on Propositions maintainedfiguratively.

Editions by Bake, 1849; Spengel-Hammer in "Rhetores Graeci",ii. (1894): see also Hammer, "De Apsine Rhetore" (1876); Volkmann,"Rhetorik der Griechen und Romer" (1885).

Two rhetorical treatises by him are extant:
# His Τεχνη ῥτορικη ("Art of Rhetoric") is a greatly interpolated handbook of rhetoric, a considerable portion being taken from the "Rhetoric" of Longinus and other material from Hermogenes;an English translation was first published in 1997. Malcolm Heath has argued ("APJ" 1998) that the work's attribution to Apsines is incorrect.
# A smaller work, Περι εσχηματισμηνων προβληματων ("on Propositions maintained figuratively").

Editions

* Jan Bake (1849)
* Spengel-Hammer, "Rhetores Graeci" (1894)
* Mervin R. Dilts and George A. Kennedy, eds., "Two Greek Rhetorical Treatises from the Roman Empire" (Brill, 1997)

References

* Hammer, "De Apsine Rhetore" (1876)
* Volkmann, "Letorile der Griechen und Romer" (1885)
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External links

* [http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/1998/1998-08-08.html Bryn Mawr Classical Review page on Dilts/Kennedy]


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