[1] From Syracuse, founder of rhetoric, 5th cent. BC
Syracusan; ancient tradition ascribed to him, in addition to Corax [3] (see there for details), the invention and foundation of rhetoric in the 5th cent. BC.
Athenian, relative of Charicles [1], a councillor (Isoc. Or. 16,43) during the oligarchy (Triákonta), wh…
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Baumhauer, Otto A. (Bremen) and
Walter, Uwe (Cologne),
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