Hermogenes of Tarsus
Hermogenes of Tarsus ( Greek Ἑρμογένης ὁ Ταρσεύς ) was an ancient Greek rhetorician . He lived at the time of the emperor Marcus Aurelius , who ruled from 161-180.
According to Philostratus , Hermogenes was a kind of rhetorical child prodigy. At the age of fifteen he was so famous that the Emperor Mark Aurel wanted to get to know him and, after hearing him talk, found him excellent. As an adult, Hermogenes allegedly lost his talent without any illness or the like.
Further information about the life of Hermogenes comes from Byzantine authors, who, however, must have served as the only source Philostratus. Details (such as the assertion of a later rhetorician that Hermogenes had already given rhetoric lessons to other teenagers as a teenager) are later inventions.
Probably as a teenager, Hermogenes wrote several textbooks with which he significantly influenced the rhetorical practice of late antiquity . Three writings are still preserved that can be considered his main works: περὶ τῶν στάσεων (on questions in court proceedings), περὶ εὑρέσεως (on substance discovery) and περὶ ἰδεῶν ( style teaching ).
These writings were particularly well received by the Neo-Platonists and were generally recognized by the 5th century at the latest. Later rhetors provided the writings with some extensive comments, for example by Sopatros , Syrianos , Georgios Monos and Markellinos . In the Middle Ages, the three writings of Hermogenes were summarized in manuscripts under the title τέχνη ῥητορική ( Oratory ).
Text editions and translations
- Hugo Rabe : Hermogenis Opera . Teubner, Leipzig 1913. Reprints Stuttgart 1969, 1985 (authoritative text edition; digitized version ).
- Ulrich Lempp: Style teaching . Library of Greek Literature Vol. 73. Anton Hiersemann Verlag, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-7772-1215-9 (German translation).
- Michel Patillon: Hermogène. L'art rhetorique . Paris 1997 (French translation)
- Cecil W. Wooten: Hermogenes' on types of style . Chapel Hill 1987 (English translation)
- Malcolm Heath : Hermogenes On issues: strategies of argument in later Greek rhetoric . Oxford 1995 (English translation)
literature
Overview representations
- Krystyna Stebnicka: Hermogenes. In: Paweł Janiszewski, Krystyna Stebnicka, Elżbieta Szabat: Prosopography of Greek Rhetors and Sophists of the Roman Empire. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-871340-1 , pp. 165 f.
- Ludwig Radermacher : Hermogenes 22). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VIII, 1, Stuttgart 1912, Col. 865-877.
Investigations
- Annabel Patterson: Hermogenes and the Renaissance: seven ideas of style . Princeton 1970
- George A. Kennedy: Invention and method: two rhetorical treatises from the Hermogenic corpus (= Writings from the Greco-Roman world 15). Leiden 2005
- Mikael Johansson: Libanius' Declamations 9 and 10 (= Studia Graeca et Latina Gothoburgensia 67). Gothenburg 2006
Web links
- Literature by and about Hermogenes von Tarsus in the catalog of the German National Library
Remarks
- ↑ Philostratus, Vitae Sophistarum 2,250.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hermogenes of Tarsus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ἑρμογένης ὁ Ταρσεύς |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek rhetorician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | uncertain: Tarsos |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd century |
| Place of death | uncertain: Tarsos |