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THEON, AELIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 785 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THEON, AELIUS , Alexandrian sophist of uncertain date, author of a collection of preliminary exercises (See also:pro-gymnasmata) for the training of orators. The See also:work (extant, though incomplete), which probably formed an appendix to a See also:manual of See also:rhetoric, shows learning and See also:taste, and contains valuable notices on the See also:style and speeches of the masters of See also:Attic See also:oratory. Theon also wrote commentaries on See also:Xenophon, Isocrates and See also:Demosthenes, and See also:treatises on style. He is to be distinguished from the Stoic Theon, who lived in the See also:time of See also:Augustus and also wrote on rhetoric (See also:Quintilian, Inst. Orat. ix. 3, 77).

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