Apsines ( Ancient Greek: Ἀψίνης) was a sophist from Athens. He was a son of Onasimus ( Ancient Greek: Ὀνάσιμος), and grandson of another Apsines who was an Athenian sophist. It is not impossible that he may be the Apsines whose commentary on Demosthenes is mentioned by Ulpian, [1] and who taught rhetoric at Athens at the time of Aedesius, in the fourth century CE, though this Apsines is called a Lacedaemonian. [2]
This Apsines and his disciples were hostile to Julianus, a contemporary rhetorician at Athens, and to his school. This enmity grew so much that Athens in the end found itself in a state of civil warfare, which required the presence of a Roman proconsul to suppress. [3]
References
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Schmitz, Leonhard (1870).
"Apsines". In
Smith, William (ed.).
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 251.
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Apsines ( Ancient Greek: Ἀψίνης) was a sophist from Athens. He was a son of Onasimus ( Ancient Greek: Ὀνάσιμος), and grandson of another Apsines who was an Athenian sophist. It is not impossible that he may be the Apsines whose commentary on Demosthenes is mentioned by Ulpian, [1] and who taught rhetoric at Athens at the time of Aedesius, in the fourth century CE, though this Apsines is called a Lacedaemonian. [2]
This Apsines and his disciples were hostile to Julianus, a contemporary rhetorician at Athens, and to his school. This enmity grew so much that Athens in the end found itself in a state of civil warfare, which required the presence of a Roman proconsul to suppress. [3]
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain:
Schmitz, Leonhard (1870).
"Apsines". In
Smith, William (ed.).
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 251.
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