Menecles

• an Asiatic rhetorician from Alabanda, Cic. de Or. 2, 23, 95; id. Or. 69, 231.
• —Hence, Mĕ-nĕclĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Menecles the rhetorician: Meneclium studium, Cic. Brut. 95, 326.

(Μενεκλῆς).

1. Of Barce in Cyrene, is mentioned by Athenaeus (iv. p. 184) simply as an historian, and is perhaps the same as the one whose work in another passage (ix. p. 390) he mentions under the title of συναγωγή. Works An Historical Work on Athens (περὶ Ἀθηνῶν)

There also existed an historical work on Athens (περὶ Ἀθηνῶν), the authorship of which was doubtful, even in antiquity, some attributing it to Menecles, and others to Callistratus (Harpocrat. s. vv. Κεραμεικός, εκατόμπεδον; Etym. Magn. s. v. Αἰολεῖς; Harpocrat., Phot., Suid. s. v. Ἑρμαῖ). But it is scarcely probable that this historian of Athens should be the same as Menecles of Barce. De Mulieribus Bello claris

It is more likely that the Barcaean is identical with the author of a work on the history of Libya, who is mentioned in an anonymous treatise, De Mulieribus Bello claris, § 10, which is printed in the Bibliothek der Alt. Lit. und Kunst, vi. p. 21. Lost work on Battus of Cyrene

It is highly probable that the Menecles of Barce was also the author of a work from which a fragment concerning Battus of Cyrene, is still extant. Further Information

Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. 4.10; Tzetz. ad Lyc. 886; Schol. Hom. Il. 5.640.

2. Of Alabanda, a celebrated rhetorician, who lived shortly before the time of Cicero. He and his brother Hierocles taught rhetoric at Rhodes, where the orator M. Antonius heard them, about B. C. 94. They both belonged to the Asiatic or florid school of eloquence, which was distinguished more for pomp and elegance of diction, than for precision of thought. But the two brothers enjoyed extraordinary reputation, for Cicero says that they were imitated by all Asia. (Cic. Brut. 95, Orat. 69, de Orat. 2.23; Strab. xiv. p.661.) [L.S]

(Μενεκλῆς). (1) Of Barcé in Cyrené, an historian of uncertain date.

(2) Of Alabanda, a celebrated rhetorician. He and his brother Hierocles taught rhetoric at Rhodes, where the orator M. Antonius heard them, about B.C. 94.