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Laodicea on the Lycus
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Menander Rhetor
Menander Rhetor
c. 250 CE–c. 290 CE · Laodicea on the Lycus
Menander Rhetor was a Greek rhetorician from Laodicea on the Lycus in Asia Minor, active in the late 3rd century CE. His name is attached to influential treatises on epideictic oratory, the rhetoric of formal praise and ceremonial speeches, which set out rules for composing addresses to cities, rulers, and gods. These handbooks shaped later Greek and Byzantine ceremonial rhetoric.
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Laodicea on the Lycus was a wealthy Greek city of Phrygia in western Asia Minor, near modern Denizli, Turkey, on the river Lycus. It is given as the home city of the rhetorician known as Menander Rhetor (Menander of Laodicea), author of treatises on epideictic speeches.
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