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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 ...
The purpose of these exercises was to prepare students for writing declamations after they had completed their education with the grammarians. There are only four surviving handbooks of progymnasmata, attributed to Aelius Theon , Hermogenes of Tarsus , Aphthonius of Antioch , and Nicolaus the Sophist .
The philologist P. Monceaux, however, writing in 1905, suggested that Aphthonius was later than Victorinus, and replaced part of Victorinus's work with his own. [1] A third view is expressed by Bruce (1949), who writes: "In the present state of uncertainty, the uniformity of style and language seems to justify us in treating the whole of the ...
Aphthonius may refer to: Aelius Festus Aphthonius (4th century), Latin grammarian, possibly of African origin Aphthonius of Antioch (late 4th century), Greek sophist and rhetorician
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.
Aelius Festus Aphthonius; Lucius Aelius Stilo Praeconinus; Aemilius Asper; Æthelstan A; Agroecius (Bishop of Sens) Alcuin; Manuel Álvares; Antonius Rufus (grammarian) Trosius Aper; Scribonius Aphrodisius; Arusianus Messius; Atilius Fortunatianus; Audax (grammarian)
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 ...
Martyrs Acindynus, Pegasius, Aphthonius, Elpidephorus, Anempodistus, and those with them, of Persia (341) [5] [6] [7] [note 3] Holy 7,000 Martyrs who suffered in Persia, (along with Sts Acindynus, Pegasias, Aphthonius, Elpidephorus, and Anempodistus), during the reign of King Sapor II (310-381) [ 8 ]