Blandus, Rube'llius
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- stoa0244a
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- urn:cite:perseus:author.279
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- stoa0244a
- Name:
- Blandus, Rube'llius
- Alt names:
- Blandus, Rubellius?,
- Field of activity:
- Historian
- Notes:
- "Blandus Rube'llius, whose grandfather was only a Roman knight of Tibur,
married in A.D. 33 Julia, the daughter of Drusus, the son of the emperor Tiberius, whence
Blandus is called the progener of Tiberius...." from Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography
and Mythology, Vol 3 1870, p. 492:.
Brill's New Pauly: "Blandus, Rubellius?, see Tac. Ann. 6,27). According to
Seneca the Elder, who quotes him on several occasions (Controv. 1,7,10
1,7,13
2,5,13ff.
book 7 passim
in detail: Suas. 2,8), B. was probably the first teacher of rhetoric in Rome
from the ranks of the equites (Controv. 2, pr. 5) at the end of the 1st cent. BC, probably
between 15 and 9 BC. In spite of some Asianic touches -- he imitated a maxim of the Asianist
Adaeus (Controv. 10,4,20) -- Flavianus, for instance, turned to him after he had left the
school of the Asian Arellius Fuscus in order to concentrate on B.'s philosophical declamation.
Calboli, Gualtiero (Bologna). "Blandus." Brill's New Pauly. Antiquity volumes edited by:
Hubert Cancik and
Helmuth Schneider . Brill, 2010. Brill Online. Tufts University Library.
18 November 2010
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