Gaianus, commonly known as Gaianus of Arabia was an early 3rd century Roman-era Arab sophist, grammarian and rhetorician.[1][2] He lived during the reign of emperors Maximinus (235–238) and Gordian III (238–244)[3]

He was born in the Roman province of Arabia Petraea.[1] Gaianus has been described as a student of the sophist Apsines, a native of Gadara.[4] He worked as a grammarian and rhetorician in Berytus (modern day Beirut).[1]

Most of Gaianus' works were in the Greek language; he wrote On Construction in five books, Art of Rhetoric and Declamations.[4]

References

edit
  1. ^ a b c Ippolito 2015.
  2. ^ Burckhardt 2002, p. 464.
  3. ^ Suda.
  4. ^ a b Haase 2011, p. 22.

Sources

edit
  • Burckhardt, Jacob (2002). Griechische Culturgeschichte: Die Kunst (in German). C.H.BECK. p. 464.
  • Ippolito, Antonella (2015). Lexicon of Greek Grammarians of Antiquity. BRILL.
  • Suda, On Line. γ 9.
  • Haase, Fee-Alexandra (2011). Non-Extant Rhetorical Handbooks of Rhetoricians and Sophists from the Pre Platonic Time until Late Hellenism as Literary Sources in Suda (PDF). University of Nizwa. p. 22.