Hermogenes of Tarsus (c.160 - c.225) was a Greek rhetorician and preceptor.
Hermogenes was at the time the most prominent figure in the teaching of Rhetoric; was already an extraordinary orator at the age of fifteen, and wrote to the seventeen On situations (Peri stáseôn), that is, those that are plated to the speaker, continuing the line initiated by Hermágoras de Temnos in the second century a. C. An extract of such a work is On the invention (Perì heuréseôs), ordered according to the parts of the speech. At the age of twenty-three he wrote On forms of style (Perì ideon), which would compose his latest work, On the vehemence of the method (Però methódou deinótêtos). He was also the author of preparatory Exercises. All his literary production received the collective title of Art (Téchnê). Hermogenes was a good connoisseur of the rhetorical commentaries to Demosthenes, and was convinced that all study of rhetoric must be based on the analysis of demosthetic writings. His work received several comments since the third century AD. C. and enjoyed warm welcome and great predicament during the Byzantine revival. Work Bibliography
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