Julius Pollux

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Who is Julius Pollux?

Julius Pollux was a Greek grammarian and sophist, scholar and rhetorician, 2nd century AD, from Naukratis, Egypt. Emperor Commodus appointed him a professor-chair of rhetoric in Athens at the Academy — on account of his melodious voice, according to Philostratus' Lives of the Sophists.

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on July 23, 2013

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