Late Antique Historiography

On Phrygia

Title(s):
  • On Phrygia
  • Περὶ τῆς Φρυγίας βιβλία β̄
    (Peri tēs Phrugias biblia b, Two books on Phrygia)
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Period covered:
Unknown
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Secular history (local history)
Remarks:
Metrophanes' sophistic activity is witnessed by other works attributed to him: περὶ ἰδεῶν λόγου (peri ideōn logou, On types of style), περὶ στάσεων (peri staseōn, On issues), εἰς τὴν ῾Ερμογένους τέχνην ὑπόμνημα (eis tēn Hermogenous technēn hupomnēma, Commentary on Hermogenes' art), εἰς ᾽Αριστείδην ὑπόμνημα (eis Aristeidēn hupomnēma, Commentary on Aristides).
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Bibliography:
  • F.-A. Haase (2011) 'Lost rhetoric found: Non extant rhetorical handbooks of rhetoricians and sophists from the pre-Platonic time until late Hellenism as literary sources in Suda'. Ágora: Estudos Clássicos em Debate 13: 9-44.
  • M. Heath (2003) 'Porphyry's rhetoric'. The Classical Quarterly 53: 141-166.
  • P. Janiszewski (2006) The missing link: Greek pagan historiography in the second half of the third century and in the fourth century A.D. Warsaw.