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Hegesias of Magnesia

200 BC - 170 BC

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Hegesias of Magnesia (Ancient Greek: Ἡγησίας ὁ Μάγνης, romanized: Hēgēsias ho Magnēs) was an Ancient Greek historian and rhetorician who flourished about 300 BC. Strabo (xiv. 648) speaks of him as the founder of the florid Asiatic style of composition. Agatharchides, Dionysius of Halicarnassus (De compositione verborum 18) and Cicero all speak of him in disparaging terms, although Varro seems to have approved of his work. He professed to imitate the simplest style of Lysias, avoiding long periods, and expressing himself in short, jerky sentences, without modulation or finish. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hegesias of Magnesia is the 988th most popular philosopher (up from 1,023rd in 2019), the 957th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 1,014th in 2019) and the 55th most popular Turkish Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Hegesias of Magnesia ranks 988 out of 1,267. Before him are Huang Zongxi, Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, Paul Deussen, Zeno of Tarsus, Androcles, and Jean Rostand. After him are Ibn Abi'l-Hadid, Pedro da Fonseca, Christian von Ehrenfels, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Fernando Savater, and Wei Yuan.

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Among people born in 200 BC, Hegesias of Magnesia ranks 64. Before him are Eirene, Valerius Antias, Gaius Sempronius Tuditanus, Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, Andronicus of Cyrrhus, and Quintus Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus. After him are Hiempsal I, Gnaeus Papirius Carbo, Laodice VI, Critolaus, Sempronia, and Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus. Among people deceased in 170 BC, Hegesias of Magnesia ranks 2. Before him is Nicander. After him is Sotion.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Hegesias of Magnesia ranks 957 out of 1,347. Before him are Philopappos (100), Pixodarus (null), Nilus of Sinai (400), Yervant Odian (1869), Polemon of Laodicea (200), and Zeno of Tarsus (-250). After him are Basilina (300), Sophronius IV of Alexandria (1798), Selda Bağcan (1948), Charles Barbier de Meynard (1826), Nihal Atsız (1905), and Nihat Erim (1912).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Türkiye

Among philosophers born in Türkiye, Hegesias of Magnesia ranks 55. Before him are Abu al-Hassan al-Amiri (913), Antipater of Tarsus (-300), Hermogenes of Tarsus (200), Sosipatra (-400), Nikephoros Blemmydes (1197), and Zeno of Tarsus (-250). After him are Critolaus (-200), Colotes (-320), and Seyla Benhabib (1950).

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