Hegesias of Magnesia

Hegesias of Magnesia in Wikipedia

Hegesias of Magnesia (in Lydia), Greek rhetorician, and historian, flourished about 300 BC. Strabo (xiv. 648), speaks of him as the founder of the florid style of composition known as "Asiatic" (cf. Timaeus). Agatharchides, Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Cicero all speak of him in disparaging terms, although Varro seems to have approved of his wor...

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Hegesias in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Greek orator, born in Magnesia on Mount Sipylus in the first half of the third century B.C. He was the founder of what was termed the Asiatic style of oratory. See Rhetorica....

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