<p>Scholars such as Annabel Patterson, John Monfasani, and James Biester have shown that, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the rhetorician Hermogenes of Tarsus (2nd century AD) enjoyed significant circulation and influence in England and across Europe. Building on their work, this article examines the presence of his treatise <i>On Ideas of Style</i> (Περὶ ἰδεῶν) within the pedagogical environments of Cambridge and Oxford during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Drawing on the universities’ curricula, records of ownership, annotated copies and remarks by scholars at both universities, the article analyses Hermogenes’s institutional role as a rhetorician formally prescribed by university statutes and positioned within advanced rhetorical instruction. The evidence from both universities indicates that engagement with Hermogenes took place within a broader culture of sustained engagement with Greek language and literature, even though, in practice, this engagement was often mediated through Latinity as a principal means of indirect access to his seven ‘ideas’ of style. Archival materials also reveal networks of book circulation and scholarly exchange between England and Continental Europe that shaped the transmission and reception of Hermogenes at different stages. Taken together, this evidence offers a reassessment of Hermogenes’s place in early modern rhetorical education in England and illuminates the wider constellation of texts that accompanied the incorporation of his ‘ideas’ into the literary culture of the period.</p>