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He studied at Smyrna and taught at Athens, gaining such a reputation that he was raised to the consulship by the emperor Maximinus.
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Apsines Gadara
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Two rhetorical treatises by him are extant:, a handbook of rhetoric greatly interpolated, a considerable portion being taken from the Rhetoric of Longinus. And a smaller work,, on Propositions maintained figuratively. by Bake, 1849. Spengel-Hammer in Rhetores Graeci, ii.
(1894): see also Hammer, De Apsine Rhetore (1876).
Volkmann, Rhetorik der Griechen und Romer (1885). Two rhetorical treatises by him are extant:
His Τέχνη ῥητορική ("Art of Rhetoric") is a greatly interpolated handbook of rhetoric, a considerable portion being taken from the Rhetoric of Longinus and other material from Hermogenes;
an English translation was first published in 1997.
Malcolm Heath has argued (APJ 1998) that the work"s attribution to Apsines is incorrect. A smaller work, Περὶ ἐσχηματισμένων προβλημάτων ("on Propositions maintained figuratively").
January Bake (1849)
Spengel-Hammer, Rhetores Graeci (1894)
Mervin R. Dilts and George A. Kennedy, eds., Two Greek Rhetorical Treatises from the Roman Empire (Brill, 1997).
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He was a rival of Fronto of Emesa, and a friend of Philostratus, the author of the Lives of the Sophists, who praises his wonderful memory and accuracy.
