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Headword:
Himerios
Adler number: iota,348
Translated headword: Himerius, Himerios
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Son of the rhetor Ameinias; of Prusias in
Bithynia.[1] Sophist; one of those under the emperor Julian. As a teacher he was a rival of Prohaeresius[2] in
Athens. In his old age he was blind. He wrote declamations.
Himerios, Ameiniou rhêtoros, Prousiados tês Bithunias, sophistês tôn epi Ioulianou tou basileôs, antipaideusas Proairesiôi en Athênais: pêros tas opseis en gêrai. egrapse meletas.
Notes:
c.310-c.390. See generally RE Himerios(1), with Suppl. 3.1151-3; OCD4
Himerius; PLRE I
Himerius(3);
Eunapius Lives of the Sophists 494.
[1] Prusias ad mare (formerly Cius). Not to be confused with the better-known Prusa, to the south. See generally
Strabo 12.4.3.
[2]
pi 2375: Prohaeresius.
G.A. Kennedy, Greek Rhetoric under Christian Emperors (Princeton 1983) 141-9
Keywords: biography; chronology; geography; history; medicine; rhetoric
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 4 March 2001@11:57:26.
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