Valerius Apsines

Apsines of Gadara was a Greek rhetorician and teacher active in Athens during the first half of the 3rd century CE. Born in Gadara and known to the biographer Philostratus, who counted him among the rhetoricians of his day, he taught and wrote on declamation and the technical art of rhetoric, reportedly receiving honorary consular rank. A surviving "Art of Rhetoric" (Techne rhetorike) is transmitted under his name, and a treatise on "figured problems" also circulates under his name, though its authenticity is doubted. He is remembered as one of the notable technical rhetoricians of the period following the heyday of the Second Sophistic.