Apollonius Molon

Apollonius Molon (sometimes called simply Molon), Greek rhetorician, who flourished about 70 BC.

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Greek - Rhetoric - 70 BC

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He was a native of Alabanda, a pupil of Menecles, and settled at Rhodes. He twice visited Rome as an ambassador from Rhodes, and Cicero and Caesar took lessons from him.

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Alabanda - Menecles - Rhodes - Rome - Cicero - Caesar

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He endeavoured moderate the florid Asiatic style and cultivated an Atticized tendency. He wrote on Homer, and, according to Josephus, violently attacked the Jews.

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Homer - Josephus - Jew

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See C Müller, Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, iii.; Emil Schürer, Story of the Jewish People, iii. (Eng. tr. 1886).

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C Müller - Emil Schürer

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