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Valerius Apsines
Valerius Apsines
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Apsines of Gadara was a Greek rhetorician and teacher active in Athens during the first half of the 3rd century CE. Born in Gadara and known to the biographer Philostratus, who counted him among the rhetoricians of his day, he taught and wrote on declamation and the technical art of rhetoric, reportedly receiving honorary consular rank. A surviving "Art of Rhetoric" (Techne rhetorike) is transmitted under his name, and a treatise on "figured problems" also circulates under his name, though its authenticity is doubted. He is remembered as one of the notable technical rhetoricians of the period following the heyday of the Second Sophistic.
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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.