person
Hermagoras of Temnos
Hermagoras
Second-century BC Greek theorist of stasis/status whose system underlies De Inventione; Cicero adopts and corrects him.
Reading notes
- Brutus §263 the school of Hermagoras
Hermagoras of Temnos (2nd century BC), rhetorician who systematised the doctrine of stasis (the issues of a case). His school was poor in ornament but methodical, giving fixed precepts for invention.
- Brutus §271 schooled in the precepts of Hermagoras
The rhetorical system of Hermagoras of Temnos, methodical but plain; it supplied ready arguments for each kind of case 'like javelins fitted with throwing-straps,' though poor in stylistic ornament.
- On Invention §1.8 Hermagoras
Hermagoras of Temnos (2nd c. BC), the Greek theorist whose system of stasis (status, the issue) underlies this book; Cicero adopts his framework while repeatedly correcting him. The young Cicero's chief sparring-partner throughout De Inventione.