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Progymnasmata (Gr**** προγυμνάσματα "fore-exercises";
Latin praeexercitamina) are a
series of
preliminary rhetorical exercises that
began in
ancient Greece...
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Byzantine Empire, both a
genre of
literature and one of the
progymnasmata. A
chreia was a brief,
useful (χρεία
means "use")
anecdote about a particular...
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version of the myth. This
alternative version also
survives in the
progymnasmata, a work by
Nicolaus Sophista, a Gr****
sophist and
rhetor who
lived during...
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Alexandrian sophist and
author of a
collection of
preliminary exercises (
progymnasmata) for the
training of orators. He
probably lived and
wrote in the mid...
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smaller scale than an
entire speech The
eighth exercise in the
progymnasmata series A
literary genre that
included five elements: prologue, birth...
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yokes his
chariot he
drives away men's
sleep through song. — Libanius,
Progymnasmata 2.26
According to Lucian,
Alectryon was said to have been 'an adolescent...
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Encyclopedia of Gr**** and
Roman mythology., p. 80, at
Google Books Libanius,
Progymnasmata,
Model Exercises in Gr****
Prose Composition and Rhetoric, Translated...
- 238–239; Hyginus,
Fabulae 99;
Diodorus Siculus, 4.33.11;
Moses of C****ne,
Progymnasmata 3.3 (= Euripides, Auge test. iib,
Collard and
Cropp 2008a, pp. 266,...
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author of a
Roman history epitome.
Aphthonius is
known for his work
Progymnasmata, a
textbook on
rhetoric and its elements,
including exercises for students...
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Lightning talk
Maiden speech Oratory Polemic Diatribe Eristic Philippic Progymnasmata Suasoria Propaganda Spin
Resignation speech Stump speech War-mongering...
