Apollonius Molon
Apollonius Molon or Molo of Rhodes (or simply Molon;
orators in the Roman Republic. Molon is reputed to have quoted Demosthenes
in telling his pupils that the first three elements in rhetoric were "Delivery, Delivery and Delivery." He had a stellar reputation in Roman Law courts, and was even invited to address the Roman Senate in Greek – an honor not usually bestowed upon foreign ambassadors.
Molon wrote on
Jews.[3]
Notes
- ^ a b One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Apollonius Molon". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 186. This cites:
- C. Müller, Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, iii.
- Emil Schürer, Story of the Jewish People, iii. (Eng. tr. 1886).
- ^ Plutarch. "Life of Caesar". University of Chicago. p. 447.
After this, Sulla's power being now on the wane, and Caesar's friends at home inviting him to return, Caesar sailed to Rhodes to study under Apollonius the son of Molon, an illustrious rhetorician with the reputation of a worthy character, of whom Cicero also was a pupil.
- ^ Louis H. Feldman, Gōhei Hata Josephus, Judaism and Christianity 1987 p18 "Of this group, Manetho, Lysimachus, Chaeremon, Apion, Posidonius, and Apollonius Molon (the last two are providers of material for Apion) are severely criticized in Josephus' Against Apion because they slandered and attacked Moses and the Jews by asserting that 1) the ancestors of the Jews were Egyptians... 10) Moses was a fraud and a charlatan whose commandments teach only evil, no virtue (Apollonius Molon, Lysimachus)."
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