Genethlius ( el, Γενέθλιος, Genéthlios) was a 3rd-century

Arab The Arabs (singular: Arab; singular ar, عَرَبِيٌّ, DIN 31635: , , plural ar, عَرَب, DIN 31635: , Arabic pronunciation: ), also known as the Arab people, are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in Western Asia, ...

sophist from

Petra Petra ( ar, ٱلْبَتْرَاء, Al-Batrāʾ; grc, Πέτρα, "Rock", Nabataean Aramaic, Nabataean: ), originally known to its inhabitants as Raqmu or Raqēmō, is an historic and archaeological city in southern Jordan. It is adjacent to t ...

Arabia Petraea Arabia Petraea or Petrea, also known as Rome's Arabian Province ( la, Provincia Arabia; ar, العربية البترائية; grc, Ἐπαρχία Πετραίας Ἀραβίας) or simply Arabia, was a frontier province of the Roman Empi ...

. His father was also named Genethlius. He was a pupil of the

Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...

sophists Minucianus ( grc, Μινουκιανός) and Agapetus ( grc, Ἀγαπητός), and then he himself became a teacher and practiced

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 ...

Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

. He has been known as a rival to the famous Callinicus of Petra.{{Cite web , title=SOL Search , url=https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/gamma/132 , access-date=2022-03-02 , website=www.cs.uky.edu Genethlius is also thought by some scholars to be the author of the first treatise in the corpus of

Menander Rhetor Menander Rhetor ( el, Μένανδρος Ῥήτωρ), also known as Menander of Laodicea ( el, Μένανδρος ὁ Λαοδικεύς), was a Greek rhetorician and commentator of the 3rd or 4th century AD. Two incomplete treatises on epidei ...

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