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Abas

Sophist, rhetorician

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Abas was a writer and orator.

Abas was an ancient Greek sophist and a rhetorician about whose life nothing is known. The Suda ascribes to him historical commentaries (in Greek ἱστoρικὰ ὑπoμνήματα) and a work on rhetoric (in Greek τέχνη ῥητoρική). Photius in his Myrobiblion quotes from him, belonging probably to the former work, saying that Abas said the name of the wife of Candaulus in Greek mythology was not Nysai but Abro.

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Who was Abas?

sophist, rhetorician

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Abas was a writer and orator.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Abas

· Wikidata: Q305617

· DBpedia: Abas (sophist)

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