Hermogenes
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.
Referenced By
List of Biblical names starting with H | Macedonius | Macedonius I of Constantinople | Macedonius of Constantinople | Patriarch Macedonius I of Constantinople | Patriarch Paul I of Constantinople | Paul I of Constantinople | Paulus I of Constantinople | Paulus of Constantinople | Theophilus | Theophilus of Antioch
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