Alciphron

Alciphron () was an ancient Greek sophist, and the most eminent among the Greek epistolographers. Regarding his life or the age in which he lived we possess no direct information whatsoever.

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Alciphron was a male writer and rhetorician who lived during the second century. He was born in Syria and wrote in Ancient Greek. His professional activity is recorded as occurring around the year 200, a period during which he was also born and died.

His literary output includes forty works. Notable titles include *Epistolae graece et latine*, *Lettres grecques, par le rhéteur Alciphron*, *Athenian Society Publications III*, and *Lettres de Pecheurs, de Paysans, de Parasites et D'hetaires*. He has been described in reference sources such as the *Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary*, the *Pauly–Wissowa*, and the *Encyclopædia Britannica* 11th edition.

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It sits within the topics 2nd-century Greek philosophers, Ancient Greek letter writers and Roman-era Sophists.

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Works: 40

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Epistularum libri IV
Epistolae graece et latine
Lettres grecques, par le rhéteur Alciphron
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Athenian Society Publications III , Literally and Completely Translated from the Greek, with Introduction Notes

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Instance of: human
Gender: male
Place of birth: Syria
Occupation: rhetorician
Languages spoken: Ancient Greek

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floruit: 0200-00-00
described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
date of birth: 0200-00-00
date of death: 0200-00-00
writing language: Ancient Greek

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Alciphron () was an ancient Greek sophist, and the most eminent among the Greek epistolographers. Regarding his life or the age in which he lived we possess no direct information whatsoever.

==Works== We possess under the name of Alciphron 116 fictional letters, in 3 books, the object of which is to delineate the characters of certain classes of men by introducing them as expressing their peculiar sentiments and opinions upon subjects with which they were familiar. The classes of persons which Alciphron chose for this purpose are fishermen, country people, parasites, and hetaerae or Athenian courtesans. All are made to express their sentiments in the most graceful and elegant language, even where the subjects are of a low or obscene kind. The characters are thus somewhat raised above their common standard, without any great violation of the truth of reality.

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