Rufus Soph

Rufus was a Greek rhetorician and teacher of rhetoric known almost entirely from a surviving handbook, the "Ars rhetorica" (Téchnē rhētorikḗ), a concise treatise on rhetorical theory preserved among the Greek rhetorical manuals. He is generally assigned to the Roman imperial period, perhaps the 2nd century CE on the basis of his style and sources, an age when sophists and rhetoric teachers flourished across the Greek-speaking East. Beyond this manual, almost nothing is reliably known of his life, career, teachers, or pupils, and his home city, exact dates, and even his fuller identity remain uncertain.