Entry Version:

This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Lara Pagani and first published on 22/12/2005.

Here is the Italian version of this entry.

Grammarian:

↓ To Source List

Biography:

Theodorus was a native of Gadara in Coele Syria and the son of slaves (Sud.θ 151); he was a rhetorician and reached his akmé ca. 33 BCE, the year in which he is registered in Jerome’s¹ Chronicon among the “nobilissimi artis rhetoricae Gr…