Heracleides (rhetor)

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Heracleides (

Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλείδης) was a rhetorician from Lycia, who lived and taught in Athens and Smyrna in the second century AD.[1]

Life

Heracleides was a disciple of

Marcianus, successfully conspired to have Heracleides deposed from his position.[4] Heracleides thereafter left Athens, and began teaching in Smyrna
.

He taught rhetoric at Smyrna with great success, so that the town was greatly benefited by him, on account of the great conflux of students from all parts of Asia Minor. He died at the age of eighty, leaving a country-house in the neighborhood of Smyrna, which he had built with the money he had earned, and which he called Rhetorica.

Works

He owed his success not so much to his talent as to his indefatigable industry; and once, when he had composed an ἐγκώμιον πόνου ("Praise of work"), and showed it to his rival Ptolemaeus, the latter struck out the π in πόνου, and, returning it to Heracleides, said, "There, you may read your own encomium" (ἐγκώμιον ὄνου meaning "Praise of the donkey")). He also published a purified edition of the orations of Nicetes, forgetting, as his biographer says, that he was putting the armor of a pigmy on a colossus.[5]

Notes

  1. ISSN 1549-0440
    . Retrieved 2016-04-09.
  2. ^
    JSTOR 311142
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  3. ^ Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists 601
  4. ^ Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists 613
  5. ^ Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists 2.26, comp. 1.19

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Heracleides". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 2. p. 390.

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