Athenaeus (rhetorician)
Athenaeus (Ancient Greek: Ἀθήναιος, fl. 1st century BCE) was a rhetorician of ancient Greece. He was a contemporary – and main opponent – of the rhetorician Hermagoras of Temnos. He was probably born around 130 BCE.[1][2][3]
Athenaeus defined rhetoric as the "art of deceiving".[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Prosser, Michael H.; Benson, Thomas W., eds. (1988). Readings in Classical Rhetoric. Taylor & Francis. p. 306. ISBN 9780961180034. Retrieved 2024-09-01.
- ^ Moran, Michael G.; Ballif, Michelle, eds. (2005). Classical Rhetorics and Rhetoricians: Critical Studies and Sources. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 191. ISBN 9780313321788. Retrieved 2024-09-01.
- ^ Heath, Malcolm (1995). Hermogenes on Issues: Strategies of Argument in Later Greek Rhetoric. Clarendon Press. p. 238. ISBN 9780198149828. Retrieved 2024-09-01.
- ^ Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 3.1.16, 2.15.23
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Mason, Charles Peter (1870). "Athenaeus (3)". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 400.