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Rufus Soph
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Rufus was a Greek rhetorician and teacher of rhetoric known almost entirely from a surviving handbook, the "Ars rhetorica" (Téchnē rhētorikḗ), a concise treatise on rhetorical theory preserved among the Greek rhetorical manuals. He is generally assigned to the Roman imperial period, perhaps the 2nd century CE on the basis of his style and sources, an age when sophists and rhetoric teachers flourished across the Greek-speaking East. Beyond this manual, almost nothing is reliably known of his life, career, teachers, or pupils, and his home city, exact dates, and even his fuller identity remain uncertain.
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About Athens
Athens, the capital of Greece since 1834, was the leading intellectual centre of the classical Greek world. Socrates taught there, and four major philosophical schools took root in the city: Plato's Academy, founded around 387 BCE, Aristotle's Lyceum, the Stoa of Zeno, and Epicurus' Garden. Under Hellenistic and Roman rule Athens remained a place of study that drew students from across the empire; in the 4th century CE the Christian writers Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus studied there together, while Neoplatonist teachers kept lecturing. Emperor Justinian's ban on pagan teaching of philosophy in 529 is generally taken to mark the end of the city's ancient history.