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...

author of a Roman history epitome. Aphthonius is known for his work Progymnasmata, a textbook on rhetoric and its elements, including exercises for students...

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....

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...

Ancient Greece portal Cyparissus Heliades Niobe Nicephorus Basilakes, Progymnasmata 6: "As a girl, Platanos was beautiful. As the daughter of Aloeus, she...

yokes his chariot he drives away men's sleep through song. — Libanius, Progymnasmata 2.26 According to Lucian, Alectryon was said to have been 'an adolescent...

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

Alexandrian sophist and author of a collection of preliminary exercises (progymnasmata) for the training of orators. He probably lived and wrote in the mid...