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| '''Hermocrates''' ({{langx|grc|Ἑρμοκράτης}}) of ] was a ] of ], who lived in the 2nd century CE. He came from a renowned lineage of philosophers, being the grandson of the sophist ] and great-grandson of ]. He studied under ] of ]. His parents were the otherwise unknown Rufianus and Callisto. He married a daughter of Antipater.<ref>{{cite book | '''Hermocrates''' ({{langx|grc|Ἑρμοκράτης}}) of ] was a ] of ], who lived in the 2nd century CE. He came from a renowned lineage of philosophers, being the grandson of the sophist ] and great-grandson of ]. He studied under ] of ]. His parents were the otherwise unknown Rufianus and Callisto. He married a daughter of Antipater.<ref>{{cite book | ||
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Greek philosopher of the 2nd centuryHermocrates (Ancient Greek: Ἑρμοκράτης) of Phocaea was a philosopher of ancient Greece, who lived in the 2nd century CE. He came from a renowned lineage of philosophers, being the grandson of the sophist Attalus and great-grandson of Polemon of Laodicea. He studied under Claudius Rufinus Sophistes of Smyrna. His parents were the otherwise unknown Rufianus and Callisto. He married a daughter of Antipater.
Hermocrates died at the age of twenty-five, or twenty-eight, according to other accounts. The writer Philostratus pronounces him one of the most distinguished rhetoricians of his age.
References
- Clinton, Henry Fynes (1853). Clinton, Henry Fynes (ed.). An Epitome of the Civil and Literary Chronology of Rome and Constantinople: From the Death of Augustus to the Death of Heraclius. University Press. p. 351. Retrieved 2024-12-22.
- Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists 2.25
- Johann Albert Fabricius Bibliotheca Graeca vol. vi. p. 131
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Mason, Charles Peter (1870). "Hermocrates (2)". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 2. p. 413.