Laodicea on the Lycus
Phrygia
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.
12 most-discussed ideas
Teachers who lived here
Works composed here
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Διαίρεσις τῶν ἐπιδεικτικῶν
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Περὶ ἐπιδεικτικῶν
Ideas shaped here
Concepts most frequently discussed in the works composed at Laodicea on the Lycus. Click any to trace the idea across time and place.
- Enkōmion (Praise of a Subject)58 passages
- Ekphrasis (Vivid Description)15 passages
- To Prepon (Decorum / Fittingness)14 passages
- The Three Genres of Oratory9 passages
- The Cardinal Virtues6 passages
- Practical Wisdom5 passages
- Justice5 passages
- Courage4 passages
- Temperance4 passages
- Myth & Allegory of the Gods4 passages
- Kairos (The Opportune Moment)3 passages
- Periēgēsis (Guided Description of Places)3 passages