Artemon (Ancient Greek: Ἀρτέμων) was a rhetorician of ancient Greece who seems to have lived during the early period of the Roman Empire. It is said that he lived during the reign of either Augustus or Tiberius. His works are mentioned several times by Seneca the Elder who has also preserved some fragments of his. Some of his theories on composition were also refuted by other rhetoricians such as Demetrius. Artemon, who edited some of Aristotle's correspondence, believed that a letter should be written like one side of a dialogue." Demetrius recommended a simpler format, devoid of interruptions and didactic style.
References
- Thomas, Joseph (2009). The Universal Dictionary of Biography and Mythology. New York, NY: Cosimo, Inc. p. 184. ISBN 978-1-61640-069-9.
- Seneca the Elder, Suasoriae 1
- Seneca the Elder, Controversiae i. 6, 7, ii. 9, 11, iii. 16, iv. 25, v. 30, 33
- ^ Ceccarelli, Paola (2013). Ancient Greek Letter Writing: A Cultural History (600 BC- 150 BC). Oxford, UK: OUP Oxford. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-19-967559-3.
- ^ Remer, Gary (1996). Humanism and the Rhetoric of Toleration. Pennsylvania State University Press. p. 29. ISBN 0-271-02811-4.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Artemon (9)". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 377.