Abron (ancient Greece)

Abron or Habron (Ancient Greek: Ἅβρων) was the name of a number of people in classical Greek history:

1. A son of the Attic orator Lycurgus.[1]

2. The son of Callias, of the deme of Bate in Attica, who wrote on the festivals and sacrifices of the Greeks.[2] He also wrote a work, περὶ παρωνύμων, which is frequently referred to by Stephanus of Byzantium (s.v. Ἀγάθη, Ἄργος, &c.) and other writers.

3. A Phrygian or Rhodian sophist and grammarian, pupil of Tryphon, and originally a slave, who taught at Rome under the first Caesars. He was presumably the same Habron who was the author of the treatise On the Pronoun.[3]

4. A rich person at Argos, from whom the proverb Ἅβρωνος βίος ("The life of Abron"), which was applied to extravagant persons, is said to have been derived.[4]

References

Footnotes

1. Plut. Fit. dec. Orat. p. 843
2. Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. Βατή
3. Suda, s.v. Άβρων
4. Suda, s.v.

Other sources

• Smith, William (1867), "Abron", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston, MA, p. 3

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Abron". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.