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HERMAGORAS , of Temnos, Greek rhetorician of the Rhodian school and teacher of oratory in Rome, flourished during the first half of the 1st century B.C. He obtained a great
special
chief
Plutarch , Pompey, 42). Hermagoras devoted himself particularly to the branch of rhetoric known as oiKovoia (inventio), and is said to have invented the doctrine
opinion of his methods, which were approved by Quintilian, although he considers that Hermagoras neglected the practical
rhetoric for the theoretical. According to Suidas and Strabo, he was the author of Tixva1 prlropucal (rhetorical manuals) and of other works, which should perhaps be attributed to his younger namesake, surnamed Carton, the pupil of Theodorus
See Strabo xiii. p. 621; Cicero, De inventione, i. 6. 8, Brutus, 76, 263. 78, 271; Quintilian, Instit. iii. 1. 16, 3. 9, II. 22; C. W. Piderit, De Hermagora rhetore (1839); G. Thiele, Hermagoras Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Rhetorik (1893). End of Article: HERMAGORAS If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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