HEGESIAS OF See also:

• MAGNESIA

MAGNESIA (in See also:

• LYDIA

Lydia)  , See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek rhetorician and historian, flourished about 300 B.C . See also:

• STRABO (born c. 63 n.c.)

Strabo (xiv . 648), speaks of him as the founder of the florid See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style of See also:

• COMPOSITION
• COMPOSITION (Lat. compositio, from componere, to put together)

composition known as "See also:

• ASIATIC

Asiatic" (cf . See also:

• TIMAEUS (c. 345—c. 250 B.e.)

TIMAEUS) . See also:

• AGATHARCHIDES, or AGATHARCHUS

Agatharchides, See also:

• DIONYSIUS
• DIONYSIUS (c. 432–367 B.C.)

Dionysius of See also:

• HALICARNASSUS (mod. Budrum)

Halicarnassus and See also:

• CICERO

Cicero all speak of him in disparaging terms, although See also:

• VARRO, MARCUS TERENTIUS (116—27 B.C.)
• VARRO, PUBLIUS TERENTIUS

Varro seems to have approved of his See also:

• WORK

work . He professed to imitate the See also:

• SIMPLE

simple style of See also:

• LYSIAS

Lysias, avoiding See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long periods, and expressing himself in See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short, jerky sentences, without modulation or finish . His vulgar affectation and bombast made his writings a See also:

• MERE
• MERE, ADALBERT (1838-1909)

mere See also:

• CARICATURE (Ital. caricatura, i.e. "ritratto ridicolo," from caricare, to load, to charge; Fr. charge)

caricature of the old See also:

• ATTIC (i.e. "in the Attic style ")

Attic . Dionysius describes his composition as tinselled, ignoble and effeminate . It is generally supposed, from the fragment quoted as a specimen by Dionysius, that Hegesias is to be classed among the writers of lives of See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

Alexander the See also:

• GREAT

Great . This fragment describes the treatment of See also:

• GAZA (or `AllAH, mod. Ghuzzeh)
• GAZA, THEODORUS (c. 1400-1475)

Gaza and its inhabitants by Alexander after its See also:

• CONQUEST

conquest, but it is possible that it is only See also:

• PART

part of an epideictic or show-speech, not of an See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical work . This view is supported by a remark of Agatharchides in See also:

• PHOTIUS
• PHOTIUS (c. 82o-891)

Photius (See also:

• COD

cod . 250) that the only aim of Hegesias was to exhibit his skill in describing sensational events .

See Cicero, See also:

• BRUTUS (originally an adjective meaning " heavy," "stupid," kindred with Gr. aap(s, cf. Eng. " brute," " brutal")

Brutus 83, Orator 67, 69, with J . E . See also:

• SANDYS, FREDERICK (1832-1904)
• SANDYS, GEORGE (1578-1644)
• SANDYS, SIR EDWIN (1561-1629)

Sandys's See also:

• NOTE
• NOTE (Lat. nota, mark, sign, from noscere, to know)

note, ad Att. xii . 6; See also:

• DION

Dion . Halic . De verborum comp. iv.; Aulus See also:

• GELLIUS, AULUS (c. A.D. 13o-I8o)

Gellius ix . 4; See also:

• PLUTARCH
• PLUTARCH (Gr. llXoi rapxos) (c. A.D. 46–120)

Plutarch, Alexander, 3; C . W . See also:

• MULLER, FERDINAND VON, BARON (1825–1896)
• MULLER, FRIEDRICH (1749-1825)
• MULLER, GEORGE (1805-1898)
• MULLER, JOHANNES PETER (18o1-1858)
• MULLER, JOHANNES VON (1752-1809)
• MULLER, JULIUS (18oi-1878)
• MULLER, KARL OTFRIED (1797-1840)
• MULLER, LUCIAN (1836-1898)
• MULLER, WILHELM (1794-1827)
• MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-1845)

Muller, Scriptores rerum Alexandri Magni, p . 138 (appendix to See also:

• DIDOT

Didot ed. of See also:

• ARRIAN (FLAvrus ARRIANUS)

Arrian, 1846) ; See also:

• NORDEN
• NORDEN, JOHN (1548-1625?)

Norden, See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die antike Kunstprosa (1898); J . B . See also:

• BURY
• BURY, JOHN BAGNELL (1861- )

Bury, See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

Ancient Greek Historians (1909), pp .

169-172, on origin and development of " Asiatic " style, with example from Hegesias .