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Hermogenes
Hermogenes
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Hermogenes of Tarsus was a Greek rhetorician of the 2nd century CE, active during the reign of Marcus Aurelius, before whom he is said to have performed as a celebrated child prodigy. He is best known for influential rhetorical treatises, above all "On Types of Style" (Peri ideon) and "On Issues" (Peri staseon), which became foundational textbooks in the later rhetorical curriculum and were intensely studied through the Byzantine period. Other works in the corpus circulated under his name, such as "On Invention," are now often regarded as not genuinely his. His doctrine of stylistic "ideai" shaped centuries of Greek literary education.
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Tarsus (Cilicia)
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Tarsus (Cilicia) in this era
Under the early Empire Tarsus was a prosperous provincial capital whose zeal for philosophy and education Strabo ranked above that of Athens and Alexandria; its Stoic teachers included Athenodorus, tutor of Augustus.
About Tarsus (Cilicia)
Tarsus, on the Cydnus River in Cilicia (southern Turkey), is one of Anatolia's oldest cities. Under the Persians it was the seat of the local Cilician rulers, and under Rome (from the 60s BCE) the capital of the province of Cilicia and a renowned centre of Greek learning, home of the Stoic Athenodorus, tutor of Augustus. The Book of Acts names it as the apostle Paul's home city. After the Arab conquests it became the chief Abbasid fortress on the Byzantine frontier (rebuilt 787-788) until Byzantium retook it in 965; it was later ruled by Armenian, Mamluk and Ottoman powers.