Apollonius Molon (sometimes called simply Molon), Greek rhetorician, who flourished about 70 BC.
He was a native of Alabanda, a pupil of Menecles, and settled at Rhodes. He twice visited Rome as an ambassador from Rhodes, and Cicero (who visited him during his trip to Greece in 79-77BC) and Caesar took lessons from him. Perhaps it is credit of Apollonius Molon's work that Cicero & Caesar, Cicero especially, became extremely revered orators in the Roman republic.
He endeavoured to moderate the florid Asiatic style and cultivated an "Atticizing" tendency. He wrote on Homer, and, according to Josephus, violently attacked the Jews.
References for this article- C Müller, Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, iii.
- Emil Schürer, Story of the Jewish People, iii. (Eng. tr. 1886).
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