Theon and the History of the Progymnasmata

<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">A comparative study of the evidence for Greek progymnasmata, the tracts of preliminary exercises to rhetoric, suggests that Theon wrote not in the first century but the fifth, while the tract attributed to Hermogenes may have been...

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Main Author: Malcolm Heath
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Duke University 2006-03-01
Series:Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies
Online Access:http://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/view/1751
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Summary:<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">A comparative study of the evidence for Greek progymnasmata, the tracts of preliminary exercises to rhetoric, suggests that Theon wrote not in the first century but the fifth, while the tract attributed to Hermogenes may have been written by Minucianus.</span>
ISSN:0017-3916
2159-3159