{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0607.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0607.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0607.tlg001.local001","title":"Progymnasmata","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Aelius Theon","authorityName":"Aelius THEON Rhet.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0607-aelius-theon/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0607-aelius-theon/","editors":["Leonhard von Spengel"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Harvard College Library","sourceTitle":"Rhetores Graeci","edition":null,"publisher":null,"place":"Leipzig","date":"1855","volume":"2","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":null},"provenance":{"authority":"Harvard College Library","sponsors":["Harvard College Library"],"funders":["Arcadia Fund"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","names":[]},{"role":"Librarian for Hellenic Studies and Coordinator for the Classics Collection Development","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/rhetoresgraeci00spengoog/page/n90","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Aelius Theon. Progymnasmata. ed. Leonhard von Spengel. Rhetores Graeci, Leipzig, 1855. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0607.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"Οἱ μὲν παλαιοὶ τῶν ῥητόρων, καὶ μάλιστα οἱ εὐδοκιμηκότες, 1 οὐκ ᾤοντο δεῖν ἐφικέσθαι τρόπον τινὰ τῆς ῥητορικῆς, πρὶν ἁμωσγέπως ἅψασθαι φιλοσοφίας, καὶ τῆς ἐκεῖθεν ἐμπλησθῆναι μεγαλονοίας· νῦν δὲ οἱ πλείους τοσοῦτον δέουσι τῶν τοιούτων λόγων ἐπαΐειν, ὥστε οὐδὲ τῶν ἐγκυκλίων καλουμένων μαθημάτων ὁτιοῦν μεταλαμβάνοντες ᾄττουσιν ἐπὶ τὸ λέγειν, καὶ τὸ πάντων ἀγροικότατον, ὅτι οὐδὲ οἷς προσῆκόν ἐστιν ἐγγυμνασάμενοι, ἐπὶ τὰς δικανικὰς καὶ δημηγορικὰς ἴενται ὑποθέσεις, τὸ δὴ λεγόμενον κατὰ τὴν παροιμίαν, ἐν πίθῳ τὴν κεραμείαν μανθάνοντες. περὶ μὲν οὖν τῶν ἄλλων, ἃ χρὴ μανθάνειν τὸν μέλλοντα ῥητορεύειν, ἄλλοι γραφέτωσαν, ἃ δὲ πρὸ τῆς ὑποθέσεως ἀναγκαῖόν ἐστιν εἰδέναι τε καὶ ἐπιεικῶς ἐγγυμνάζεσθαι, ταῦτα νῦν πειράσομαι παραδοῦναι, οὐχ ὡς οὐχὶ καὶ ἄλλων τινῶν συγγεγραφότων περὶ τούτων, ἀλλʼ οὐ μικρόν τι καὶ αὐτὸς ἐλπίζων συλλήψεσθαι τοῖς λέγειν προαιρουμένοις. οὐ γὰρ μόνον τοῖς ἤδη παραδεδομένοις…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0607.tlg001.local001/#tlg0607-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"ΠΕΡΙ ΤΗΣ ΤΩΝ ΝΕΩΝ ΑΓΩΓΗΣ,","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0607.tlg001.local001/#tlg0607-tlg001-local001-2"},{"label":"ΠΕΡΙ ΜΥΘΟΥ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0607.tlg001.local001/#tlg0607-tlg001-local001-3"},{"label":"ΠΕΡΙ ΔΙΗΦΗΜΑΤΟΣ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0607.tlg001.local001/#tlg0607-tlg001-local001-4"},{"label":"ΠΕΡΙ ΧΡΕΙΑΣ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0607.tlg001.local001/#tlg0607-tlg001-local001-5"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0607.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0607.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0607/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}