Progymnasmata (Greek προγυμνάσματα "fore-exercises"; Latin praeexercitamina) are a series of preliminary rhetorical exercises that began in ancient Greece...

and the Byzantine Empire, both a genre of literature and one of the progymnasmata. A chreia was a brief, useful (χρεία means "use") anecdote about a particular...

version of the myth. This alternative version also survives in the progymnasmata, a work by Nicolaus Sophista, a Greek sophist and rhetor who lived during...

on a smaller scale than an entire speech The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series A literary genre that included five elements: prologue, birth...

Anonyme, Préambule à la rhétorique. Aphthonios, Progymnasmata. En annexe: Pseudo-Hermogène, Progymnasmata by Michel Patillon". Gnomon. 82 (5): 405–411....

works of Libanius, which include over 1,600 letters, 64 speeches and 96 progymnasmata (rhetorical exercises), are valuable as a historical source for the...

Lightning talk Maiden speech Oratory Polemic Diatribe Eristic Philippic Progymnasmata Suasoria Propaganda Spin Resignation speech Stump speech War-mongering...

Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman mythology., p. 80, at Google Books Libanius, Progymnasmata, Model Exercises in Greek Prose Composition and Rhetoric, Translated...

Lightning talk Maiden speech Oratory Polemic Diatribe Eristic Philippic Progymnasmata Suasoria Propaganda Spin Resignation speech Stump speech War-mongering...

Av. 835; Eustathius, Ad Odysseam 1.300; Ausonius, 26.2.27; Libanius, Progymnasmata 2.26. Clement of Alexandria, Clementina Homilia, V, 15. Licht, Hans...