Ulpianus (speaker)

Ulpianus (* around 255, † around 330) was a late antique rhetorician .

Although Ulpianus seems to have been an extremely influential teacher of rhetoric, little is known about himself. He came from Ascalon and began teaching rhetoric during the reign of Constantine the Great , first in Emesa , then in Antioch . There Prohairesios , perhaps Hephaestion and finally the young Libanios were among his students. He died around 330.

Ulpianus was the author of numerous works, including speeches (such as a speech comparable to Antiochikos des Libanios) and declamations. Of these, however, apart from a brief quotation, nothing has survived in the church history of Euagrios Scholastikos . It is unclear whether he is identical to a sophist of the same name who also wrote rhetorical works.

Sources that provide information about Ulpianus (the speaker and the sophist) include the Suda, the Vitae sophistarum of Eunapios of Sardis , speeches and a letter from Lebanios.

literature

• Arnold Hugh Martin Jones , John Robert Martindale, John Morris : Ulpianus 1. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 1, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1971, ISBN 0-521-07233-6 , p. 973.
• Paweł Janiszewski: 1067. Ulpianos; 1068. Ulpianos. 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. 373-375 (one article on the rhetorician and one on the sophist)

Remarks

1. ↑ Suda , keyword Prohairesios ( Προαιρέσιος ), Adler number: pi 2375 , Suda-Online
2. ↑ Euagrios Scholastikos, Historia ecclesiastica 1.20.
3. ↑ On the Sophists see Suda , keyword Ulpianos ( Οὐλπιανός ), Adler number: omicron 912 , Suda-Online and PLRE I, p. 974 ( Ulpianus 4 )
4. ↑ Eunapios, Vitae sophistarum 10,3,3.