Alcidamas
historical figure · 4 works · 7 mentions · 7 anchored passages
in the texts
Rhetoric
Rhetorician noted as having discussed the same precept of natural justice in his Messeniacus.
Alcidamas also speaks of this precept in his Messeniacus.
Similarly, in order to prove that men of talent are everywhere honored, Alcidamas said:
and Alcidamas says plaything in poetry, the audaciousness of nature, whetted with unmitigated wrath of thought.
Vitae philosophorum
Author of a treatise on Physics cited for the claim that Zeno and Empedocles were fellow pupils of Parmenides.
Alcidamas tells us in his treatise on Physics that Zeno and Empedocles were pupils of Parmenides about the same time, that afterwards they left him, and that, while Zeno framed his own system, Empedocles became the pupil of Anaxagoras and Pythagoras, emulating the latter in dignity of life and bearing, and the former in his physical investigations.
Alcidamas made discourse fourfold, affirmation, negation, question, address.
Tusculan Disputations
Ancient rhetorician credited with writing a Praise of Death.
Alcidamas, indeed, an ancient rhetorician among the most famous, even wrote a Praise of Death, which consists of an enumeration of human ills;
Demosthenes
Rhetorician whose systems, along with those of Isocrates, Demosthenes is said to have secretly mastered.
He also quotes Ctesibius as saying that from Callias the Syracusan and certain others Demosthenes secretly obtained the rhetorical systems of Isocrates and Alcidamas and mastered them.