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Hermogenes
Hermogenes
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Hermogenes of Tarsus was a Greek rhetorician of the 2nd century CE, active during the reign of Marcus Aurelius, before whom he is said to have performed as a celebrated child prodigy. He is best known for influential rhetorical treatises, above all "On Types of Style" (Peri ideon) and "On Issues" (Peri staseon), which became foundational textbooks in the later rhetorical curriculum and were intensely studied through the Byzantine period. Other works in the corpus circulated under his name, such as "On Invention," are now often regarded as not genuinely his. His doctrine of stylistic "ideai" shaped centuries of Greek literary education.
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Tarsus (Cilicia)
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About Tarsus (Cilicia)
Tarsus, in the Cilicia region of southern Turkey near the Mediterranean, was a frontier fortress-town (thaghr) on the border between the Abbasid caliphate and the Byzantine Empire, a base for the seasonal jihad campaigns and a gathering place for ascetics and warriors. The traditionist and ascetic Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak (d. 797), famed for combining hadith scholarship with frontier devotion, died at Hit on the Euphrates after campaigning in this border zone.