Theon and the history of the progymnasmata

Greek, Roman and Byzantine studies· 2002-01-01· article· 72 citationsdiamond

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Abstract

A comparative study of the evidence for Greek progymnasmata, the tracts of preliminary exercises to rhetoric, suggests that Theon wrote not in the first century but the fifth, while the tract attributed to Hermogenes may have been written by Minucianus.

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Malcolm Heath (2002). Theon and the history of the progymnasmata. Greek, Roman and Byzantine studies.

@article{malcolm2002theon,
  title  = {Theon and the history of the progymnasmata},
  author = {Heath, Malcolm},
  year   = {2002},
  journal = {Greek, Roman and Byzantine studies}
}

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