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Encyclopedia Britannica



APHTHONIUS

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 168 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ANC-APO
APHTHONIUS , of Antioch, Greek sophist and rhetorician, flourished in the second half of the 4th century A.D., or even later. Nothing is known of his
life
 , except that he was a friend of Libanius and of a certain Eutropius, perhaps the author of the epitome of Roman history. We possess by him IIpoyvuvavara, a text-book on the elements of rhetoric, with exercises for the use of the
young
  before they entered the
regular
  rhetorical schools. They apparently formed an introduction to the TExv'I of
Hermogenes
 . His style is pure and simple, and ancient critics praise his " Atticism." The book maintained its popularity as
late
  as the 17th century, especiallyin Germany. Acollection of
forty
  fables by Aphthonius, of ter the style of
Aesop
 , is also extant.
Spengel, Rhetores Graeci, ii.; Finckh, Aphthonii Progymnasmata(1865); Hoppichler, De Theone, Hermogene, Aphthonioque Progymnasmatum Scriptoribus (1884); edition of the fables by Furia (181o).


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