[I 1] Maximus of Tyre Author of lectures mainly on ethics and theology, 2nd cent. AD, [1] Maximus of Tyrus
AD 2nd cent.; author of 41 short dialéxeis (lectures), according to the most important MS (Cod. Parisinus graecus 1962) delivered in Rome (the Suda dates a visit to the reign of Commodus, AD 180-191). His concepts are simple yet rhetorically sophisticated (frequent use of comparisons, quotations from poetry, mythological and historical examples); his main topic is ethics, but he …
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Trapp, Michael (London),
Hübner, Wolfgang (Münster),
Brisson, Luc (Paris),
Leppin, Hartmut (Hannover),
Savvidis, Kyriakos (Bochum),
Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum),
Eck, Werner (Cologne),
Groß-Albenhausen, Kirsten (Frankfurt/Main),
Gatti, Paolo (Trento) and
Markschies, Christoph (Berlin),
“Maximus”, in:
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