Tyrannos (rhetorician)

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Tyrannos was a 4th or 5th century Greek rhetorician . He wrote a work on declamation . Few fragments have been preserved.

literature

  • Willy Stegemann: Tyrannos 2). In: Paulys Real Encyclopedia of Classical Antiquity . New processing. 2nd row, 14th half volume (1st half), Metzler, Stuttgart 1943, col. 1843–1847 (with the fragments)
  • Elżbieta Szabat: Tyrannos. 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 , p. 372
  • Michael Weißenberger: Tyrannos. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12/1, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01482-7 , Sp. 950.
personal data
SURNAME Tyrannos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek rhetorician
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: 4th century
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 5th century