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Aphthonius is known for his work Progymnasmata, a textbook on rhetoric and its elements, including exercises for students before they entered formal rhetorical schools. This work served as an introduction to the techne of Hermogenes of Tarsus. [3] Aphthonius's writing style is characterized as pure and simple, and ancient critics praised his ...
Aphthonius (Ancient Greek: Ἀφθόνιος) of Alexandria is mentioned by church historian Philostorgius [1] as a learned and eloquent bishop of the Manichaeans. He is mentioned as a disciple and commentator of the prophet Mani by Photios I of Constantinople and Peter of Sicily , and in the form of abjuring Manichaeism.
The courses were organized to begin with story-telling and end with making an argument. There was a focus on literature as a supplement to the course, paying close attention to models of rhetoric and literature. The progymnasmata of Aphthonius was first translated to Latin in the fifteenth century by Rudolphus Agricola.
Aphthonius may refer to: Aelius Festus Aphthonius (4th century), Latin grammarian, possibly of African origin; Aphthonius of Antioch (late 4th century), Greek sophist ...
Aphthonius, Progymnasmata [38] Hermogenes, De statibus, De inventione and De ideis [98] [38] Ps.-Hermogenes, De methodo sollertiae [98] Aelius Aristides, De civili oratione and De simplici oratione [38] Apsines, Rhetorica [38] Menander Rhetor, Divisio causarum in genere demonstrativo [38] Sopater, Quaestiones de compendis declamationibus [38]
The fable recorded by Aphthonius of Antioch concerns a swan that its owner mistook for a goose in the dark and was about to kill it until the swan's song alerted him to the mistake he was making. At the start is the claim that this will encourage young people to study, and it ends with the dubious statement "that music is so powerful that it ...
Aelius Festus Aphthonius is believed to be the author (otherwise unknown) of a Latin work called De metris omnibus ("About all the metres") incorporated as part of the Ars Grammatica of the fourth-century AD Christian writer Gaius Marius Victorinus.
Muradyan was born on October 28, 1957, in Yerevan. From 1969 to 1974 she studied at the English School No. 172 in Yerevan. From 1974 to 1979 she studied at the Faculty of Philology of Leningrad State University.