Apsines of Gadara (Greek: Ἀψίνης ὁ Γαδαρεύς; fl. 3rd century AD) was a Greekrhetorician. He was a native of the Hellenised city of Gadara,[1] whose ruins stand today at the border of Jordan with Syria and Israel. Apsines went on to study 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.[2]
Two rhetorical treatises by him are extant:
His Τέχνη ῥητορική ("Art of Rhetoric") is a greatly interpolated handbook of rhetoric, a considerable portion being taken from the Rhetoric of Longinus[2] 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, Περὶ ἐσχηματισμένων προβλημάτων ("on Propositions maintained figuratively").[2]
Mervin R. Dilts and George A. Kennedy, eds., Two Greek Rhetorical Treatises from the Roman Empire (Brill, 1997)
Referencesedit
^Blank, David, "Philodemus", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2019 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), accessed 3 June 2020.
^ abcOne or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Apsines". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 232.
Hammer, De Apsine Rhetore (1876)
Volkmann, Letorile der Griechen und Romer (1885)
External linksedit
Bryn Mawr Classical Review page on Dilts/Kennedy
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