Apollonius the Effeminate

Apollonius of Alabanda [1] (also Apollonius Malakos, Appolonius Malachus)[2] (malakos meaning 'soft', with the potential implication of 'effeminate') (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Μαλακός) was a Greek sophist rhetorician of Alabanda in Caria who flourished about 120 BC.[3]

After studying under Menecles, chief of the Asiatic school of oratory, he settled in Rhodes, where he taught rhetoric.[4] Among his pupils were Q. Mucius Scaevola the augur, and Marcus Antonius, the grandfather of Mark Antony.[5][6]

References

  1. ^ Martano, Andrea; Matelli, Elisabetta; Mirhady, David (2018-01-12). Praxiphanes of Mytilene and Chamaeleon of Heraclea: Text, Translation, and Discussion. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-49713-8.
  2. ^ The Sophists: An Introduction. A&C Black. 2013-10-10. ISBN 978-1-4725-2119-4.
  3. ^ Rhodios, Apollonios; Apollonius (Rhodius.) (2007-12-05). The Argonautika. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-25393-3.
  4. ^  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Appolonius". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 186.
  5. ^ Cicero. De Oratore. Vol. 1.
  6. ^ Hazel, John (2002-09-26). Who's Who in the Roman World. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-59252-4.


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