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grbs-13521	Gibson, Craig A.	How (not) to learn rhetoric: Lucian’s Rhetorum Praeceptor as rebuttal of a school exercise	2012	22	.pdf	application/pdf	8405	330	64	Anderson (Lucian 41–42) says, “This could be a typical apothegm from the Alexander- historians, but it also embodies two essential motifs from Lucian’s reper- toire. In the Rhetorum Prae- ceptor (hereafter Rh.Pr.), Lucian depicts two roads leading to rhetoric, an impossibly long and old-fashioned one (Virtue) and a comically short, easy, and disreputable one (Vice).3 Lucian’s 1 On the Prodicus myth in Xenophon (=84 B 2 D.-K.) see K. Jöel, Der echte und der xenophontische Sokrates II.1 (Berlin 1901) 284–560; D. Sansone, “Heracles at the Y,” JHS 124 (2004) 125–142.	cache/grbs-13521.pdf	txt/grbs-13521.txt