For other uses, see Alcimus (disambiguation)

Alcimus (disambiguation)

Alcimus may refer to a number of people from classical history:*Alcimus , name of several figures in Greek mythology*Alcimus , Greek rhetorician of the 3rd century BC*Alcimus, high priest in Jerusalem in the 2nd century BC...

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Alcimus (Gr.

Ancient Greek

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 ) was a Greek rhetorician who flourished

Floruit

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 around 300 BC

300 BC

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. He was called by Diogenes Laërtius

Diogenes Laertius

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 the most distinguished of all Greek rhetoricians. It is not certain whether he is the same as the Alcimus to whom Diogenes in another passage ascribes a work called Pros Amuntan . Athenaeus

Athenaeus

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 in several places speaks of a Sicilian

Sicily

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Alcimus, who appears to have been the author of a great historical work, parts of which are referred to under the names of Italica and Sicelica . But whether he was the same as the rhetorician Alcimus, cannot be determined.