Hagnon of Tarsus
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Ancient Greek rhetorician and philosopher
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Communications
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#13193
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Rhetoric
#43
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#66
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Why Is Hagnon of Tarsus Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Hagnon of Tarsus was an ancient Greek rhetorician, an Academic Skeptic philosopher, and a pupil of Carneades. Quintilian chides him for writing a book called Rhetorices accusatio in which he denied that rhetoric was an art.