Phrynichus (Sophist)

Phrynichos (Greek Φρύνιχος Phrýnichos ) was a Greek sophist . He lived in the second half of the 2nd century. According to the information provided by the Suda , he came from Bithynia . Photios reports that Phrynichos was of Arab origin; he studied in Asia Minor and then worked in Bithynia.

Phrynichos composed a selection of Attic words and phrases that were meticulously strict with regard to the model . Excerpts from a comprehensive work in 37 books have also been preserved, the Sophistic Preparations , which should offer the speaker in alphabetical order everything necessary for good and pure expression with careful distinction between the various genres. The sophistic preparations were dedicated to Commodus , who was then co-emperor of his father Marcus Aurelius ; they were thus completed in the period 177–180.

Text output

• Eitel Fischer (Ed.): The Eclogue of Phrynichos . De Gruyter, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-11-003638-X (critical edition; also dissertation, University of Tübingen 1970)

literature

• Eleanor Dickey: Ancient Greek Scholarship. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-531292-8 , pp. 96 f.
• Stephanos Matthaios: Phrynichos (4). In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 9, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01479-7 , Col. 971 f.
• Krystyna Stebnicka: Phrynichos. 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. 298 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Phrynichos in the catalog of the German National Library