AphthoniusofAntioch (Greek: Ἀφθόνιος Ἀντιοχεὺς ὁ Σύρος) was a Greek sophist and rhetorician who lived in the second half of the 4th century CE. No information...
Aphthonius may refer to: Aelius Festus Aphthonius (4th century), Latin grammarian, possibly of African origin AphthoniusofAntioch (late 4th century)...
only four surviving handbooks of progymnasmata, attributed to Aelius Theon, Hermogenes of Tarsus, AphthoniusofAntioch, and Nicolaus the Sophist. Composition...
collections of Babrius (140) and Avianus (34), and in several prose collections including those attributed to Syntipas and AphthoniusofAntioch. The fable's...
Arian theologian Aëtius ofAntioch challenged Aphthonius to a public debate, and traveled to Alexandria to engage in this. Aphthonius was defeated in the...
swans are turned to geese', referring to a reverse of fortune. The fable recorded by AphthoniusofAntioch concerns a swan that its owner mistook for a goose...
Hermogenes of Tarsus, Menander Rhetor, AphthoniusofAntioch, Libanius, and Alexander Numenius. Another bridge between the Hellenistic tradition of eloquence...
another epigram by Evenus of Ascalon containing simply the vine's retort and the prose collection of fables by AphthoniusofAntioch. Elsewhere in Europe it...
mother and asks for a demonstration of how that is done. The story, recorded by Babrius and AphthoniusofAntioch in Greek and by Avianus in Latin, was...
one of those proscribed by the triumvirs, sought the assistance of Marcus Antonius, who was able to procure his pardon. Sergius, the son ofAphthonius, is...
p. 24. Sellers, R. V. (2014) [1928]. Eustathius ofAntioch: And his Place in the Early History of Christian Doctrine. Cambridge: Cambridge University...