Patrocles

In Greek mythology, as recorded in the Iliad by Homer, Patroclus, or Patroklos , was the son of Menoetius, grandson of Actor, King of Opus, and was Achilles’ beloved comrade.- Patroclus’ genealogy :...

Thurii – Greek: , called also by some Latin writers and by Ptolemy, Thurium , for a time also Copia and Copiae and sometimes written as Turios; – was a city of Magna Graecia, situated on the Tarentine gulf, within a short distance of the site of Sybaris, of which it may be considered...

Rhetoric is one of the arts of using language as a means to persuade. Along with grammar and logic or dialectic, rhetoric is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. From ancient Greece to the late 19th Century, it was a central part of Western education, filling the need to train public...

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was a Roman rhetorician from Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing...

For other uses ,see PatroclesPatrocles was a Macedonian general and writer on geographical subjects. He served Seleucus and Antiochus, apparently for several decades, and explored the Caspian Sea caming to the conclusion that the Caspian was a gulf or inlet, and that it was possible to enter it...