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Headword:
Ζήνων
Adler number: zeta,81
Translated headword: Zeno, Zenon
Vetting Status: low
Translation: Of Citium. It is not clear whether he was a rhetor or a philosopher.[1] He wrote
On Issues;
On Figures;
Commentary on Xenophon,
on Lysias,
on Demosthenes;
On Epicheiremes.
Ζήνων, Κιτιεύς. εἰ δὲ ῥήτωρ τις ἦν ἢ φιλόσοφος, ἄδηλον. ἔγραψε Περὶ στάσεων, Περὶ σχημάτων, Ὑπόμνημα εἰς Ξενοφῶντα, εἰς Λυσίαν, εἰς Δημοσθένην, Περὶ ἐπιχειρημάτων.
Notes:
RE Zenon (9-10). He is probably the rhetor mentioned in
Philostratus,
Lives of the Sophists 2.24, and his
On Issues the work epitomised by Sulpicius Victor (RLM 313.2-4 Halm).
[1] Confusing the rhetor with the Stoic (
Zeta 79)
Zeno of Citium (RE Zenon(2); OCD3
Zeno(2)); the rhetor's ethnic may therefore be an error.
M. Heath 'Zeno the rhetor and the thirteen staseis' Eranos 92 (1994) 17-22
Keywords: biography; historiography; philosophy; rhetoric
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 16 February 2001@11:35:22.
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