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 25/01/2005. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Pollux | Πολυδεύκης Place of Origin: Parium Date: ? ↓ To Source List Biography: Pollux is a grammarian known only through one certain attestation in a passage of Athenaeus1 (11, 784d), which identifies the city of Parium as Pollux’s home and preserves his definition of the term βῖκος as a “container in the form of a φιάλη” (φιαλῶδες). Wendel ( Polydeukes […