Abas ( el, Ἄβας) was an ancient
Greek sophist and a
rhetoric
Rhetoric () is the art of persuasion, which along with grammar and logic (or dialectic), is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuade, or motivate parti ...
ian about whose life nothing is known. The ''
Suda
The ''Suda'' or ''Souda'' (; grc-x-medieval, Σοῦδα, Soûda; la, Suidae Lexicon) is a large 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia of the ancient Mediterranean world, formerly attributed to an author called Soudas (Σούδας) or Souidas ...
'' ascribes to him historical commentaries (in Greek ιστoρικά απoμνηατα) and a work on rhetoric (in Greek τέχνη ρητoρική).
Photius
Photios I ( el, Φώτιος, ''Phōtios''; c. 810/820 – 6 February 893), also spelled PhotiusFr. Justin Taylor, essay "Canon Law in the Age of the Fathers" (published in Jordan Hite, T.O.R., & Daniel J. Ward, O.S.B., "Readings, Cases, Materia ...
in his ''Myrobiblion'' quotes from him, belonging probably to the former work, saying that Abas said the name of the wife of
Candaulus in Greek mythology was not Nysai but Abro.
[Photius, Myrobiblion 190]
References
Sources
"Abas"in ''Suda''
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Smith, William; ''
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology''
"Abas (1)" Boston, (1867)
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Roman-era Sophists
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
1st-millennium people
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