Entry Version:
This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Valeria Bacigalupo and published on 02/04/2020.
Here is the Italian version of this entry.
Biography:
Little is known of the activity of the grammarian Pisistratus, for he is only mentioned twice in the tradition: once – and this is the more problematic occurrence – in a passage of Diogenes Laertius1 (2, 60), who records a judgement of his on the authorsh…