Versione della scheda: La prima versione italiana di questa scheda di Anna Boatti è stata pubblicata il 23/10/2002. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Ptolemaeus [8] Pindarion | Πτολεμαῖος ὁ Πινδαρίων Identità: BNP Luogo di provenienza: Alessandria Data: 2° sec. a.C. ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: Tolemeo figlio di Oroande, spesso ricordato anche come Πτολεμαῖος ὁ Πινδαρίων, visse e operò ad Alessandria, dove fu discepolo di Aristarco (è detto μαθητὴς Ἀριστάρχου in Sud. π 3034), dato che permette di collocarne la cronologia nella seconda me…

Entry Version: This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Antonella Ippolito and first published on 29/04/2008. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Tryphon [1] | Τρύφων Identity: Perseus | BNP Place of Origin: Alexandria Date: second half of the 1st c. BCE ↓ To Source List Biography: Tryphon was a native of Alexandria and the son of a certain Ammonius; according to the Suda1 (τ 1115: γεγονὼς κατὰ τοὺς Αὐγούστου χρόνους καὶ πρότερον) , he was active during the reign of Augustus2, but he was bor…

Entry Version: This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Antonella Ippolito and first published on 22/11/2006. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Iubas [1] II | Ἰόβας / Ἰούβας Identity: Perseus | BNP | BNJ Place of Origin: Mauritania Date: ca. 50 a.C. – 23 d.C. ↓ To Source List Biography: This Mauretanian monarch and prolific writer, the son of King Juba I of Numidia1 and grandson of Hiempsal2, is now generally distinguished from the metrician of the same name3 (cf. W. Kroll, Iuba [3], RE 9, 2 […

Versione della scheda: La versione italiana di questa scheda di Paola Ascheri è stata pubblicata il 04/04/2019. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Adrastus | Ἄδραστος Identità: BNP Luogo di provenienza: Afrodisia Data: prima metà del 2° sec. d.C. ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: Filosofo peripatetico nativo di Afrodisia (Caria), vissuto nel 2° sec. d.C.: la menzione di Adrasto da parte di Galeno (130 ca.-200 ca. d.C.) costituisce un terminus ante quem utile per collocare l’attività dello studioso attorno alla prima metà del secolo. Per una …

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 21/08/2006 – 23/09/2009. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Herodicus Crateteus | Ἡρόδικος ὁ Κρατήτειος Identity: Perseus Place of Origin: Babylonia (Seleucia on the Tigris?) Date: 2nd c. BCE ↓ To Source List Biography: Herodicus was a native of Babylonia (ὁ Βαβυλώνιος, Ath. 5, 222a; cf. Eustath. ad Il. 1077, 24-27), or perhaps of Seleucia on the Tigris, the new capital of the kingdom (so I. Düring, He…

Versione della scheda: La versione italiana di questa scheda di Lara Pagani è stata pubblicata il 01/10/2020. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Tyrannion [1] Maior | Τυραννίων ὁ πρεσβύτερος Identità: BNP Luogo di provenienza: Amiso Data: 110/100-25 ca. a.C. ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: Ricaviamo la maggior parte delle informazioni sulla biografia di Tirannione dalla testimonianza della Suda (τ 1184). Egli era originario di Amiso nel Ponto, visse al tempo di Pompeo Magno e morì di gotta in età avanzata. Nell’indicazione cronologica fornita dalla Suda…

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 7/11/2019. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Eteoneus | Ἐτεωνεύς Identity: Pauly-Wissowa Place of Origin: ? Date: ? ↓ To Source List Biography: Our knowledge of Eteoneus is based on a single attestation of his name that is preserved in one of scholia Vaticana on the Τέχνη γραμματική attributed to Dionysius Thrax1 (p. 184, 22-25 Hilgard). In the section which includes the comments on § 6 (περὶ στοιχ…

Entry Version: This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Margarethe Billerbeck and Didier Clerc and published on 04/04/2019. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Stephanus | Στέφανος Identity: Perseus | Pauly-Wissowa | BNP Place of Origin: Byzantium Date: 6th c. CE ↓ To Source List Biography: Life and Works We have no detailed information about the life and activity of Stephanus of Byzantium, whom the Suda1 mentions only in the entry Ἑρμόλαος (ε 3048 = T 8). Our knowledge of the lexicographer2…

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 16/01/2007. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Demo | Δημώ Identity: BNP Place of Origin: ? Date: 5th c. CE? ↓ To Source List Biography: A scholar with an allegorical approach, Demo is cited in the scholia to the Iliad1 and Lucian2 and in Eustathius3, and is the object of a polemic by Johannes Tzetzes4, who mentions her with the offensive epithet μιμώ, together with Heraclitus5, Cornutus6, Palaephatus7…

Entry Version: This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Mario Regali and first published on 29/09/2008. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Ister [1] | Ἴστρος Identity: Perseus | BNP | BNJ | FGrHist IV Place of Origin: Paphos? Date: 3rd c. BCE ↓ To Source List Biography: The information that we have about Ister’s homeland is contradictory: the Suda1 (ι 706, FGrHist 334 T 1) wavers between Cyrene and Macedonia (Κυρηναῖος ἢ Μακεδών; the entry Ἴστρος in the Suda is in all likelihood the resul…

Entry Version: This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Martina Savio and published on 07/11/2019. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Heraclitus [1] | Ἡράκλειτος Identity: Perseus | Pauly-Wissowa Place of Origin: ? Date: 1st/2nd c. CE? ↓ To Source List Biography: Ἡράκλειτος is the name cited in the subscriptions of the more credible witnesses of the rhetorical-allegorical work, to which some manuscripts attribute the title Ὁμηρικὰ προβλήματα and which, starting from mid-19th C…

Versione della scheda: La prima versione italiana di questa scheda di Giuseppe Ucciardello è stata pubblicata il 15/05/2006. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Curtius Nicias | Κούρτιος Νικίας Identità: BNP Luogo di provenienza: Cos Data: 1° sec. a.C. ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: Grammatico e tiranno di Cos di epoca tardo-repubblicana. Fu a Roma a partire dal 62 a.C. e divenne cittadino romano grazie a Pompeo o C. Memmio. Il nome completo di questo personaggio è tràdito solo da Svetonio ( gramm. 14), il quale tramanda un episodio che ne attesta i …

Entry Version: This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Fausto Montana and first published on 10/01/2006. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Timachidas | Τιμαχίδας Identity: Place of Origin: Lindus (Rhodes) Date: 2nd/1st c. BCE? ↓ To Source List Biography: The dating of the Rhodian grammarian Timachidas is intertwined with the problem of his possible identification with the Τιμαχίδας Ἁγησιτίμου Λινδοπολίτας cited in the inscription of the so-called Chronicle of the temple of Lindus …

Entry Version: This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Fausto Montana and first published on 20/12/2015. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Chaeris | Χαῖρις Identity: BNP Place of Origin: ? Date: 2nd/1st c. BCE? ↓ To Source List Biography: We have no certain information about the life of Chaeris. We know from his fragments that he lived after Aristarchus1, with whom he shares or disputes some philological opinions about the Iliad2, and before Didymus3, who used his writings ( Sch. A Il. 6, …

Entry Version: This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Mario Regali and first published on 11/06/2008. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Mnaseas [1] | Μνασέας Identity: Perseus | BNP Place of Origin: Patara (Lycia) (?) Date: second half of the 3rd c. BCE ↓ To Source List Biography: The sources attribute to Mnaseas both the ethnic Πατρεύς and the ethnic Παταρεύς, and so either Patras in Achaia or Patara in Lycia could be his homeland; nonetheless, the variant Παταρεύς seems preferable si…

Versione della scheda: La versione italiana di questa scheda di Paola Ascheri è stata pubblicata il 01/10/2020. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Demetrius [3] | Δημήτριος Identità: Pauly-Wissowa | BNP | BNJ Luogo di provenienza: Magnesia (?) Data: metà del 1° sec. a. C. ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: Erudito nativo di una delle città di nome Magnesia ad oggi non identificata (Magnesia al Sipilo? Magnesia sul Meandro? Magnesia di Tessaglia?), Demetrio è collocabile con sicurezza alla metà del 1° sec. a.C., grazie all…

Versione della scheda: La prima versione italiana di questa scheda di Antonella Ippolito è stata pubblicata il 22/11/2006. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Iubas [1] II | Ἰόβας / Ἰούβας Identità: Perseus | BNP | BNJ Luogo di provenienza: Mauritania Data: ca. 50 a.C. – 23 d.C. ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: La figura di questo monarca e poligrafo mauritano, figlio di Giuba I re di Numidia e nipote di Iempsale, viene oggi generalmente distinta da quella dell’omonimo metricologo (=> Iubas [2] artigraphus; cfr. W. Kroll, Iuba [3], RE 9, 2 [1916], 2395–2397; …

Entry Version: This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Paola Ascheri and first published on 05/06/2009 – (02/03/2010). Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Demetrius [5] | Δημήτριος ὁ Γονύπεσος Identity: BNP Place of Origin: ? Date: ante 2° sec. d.C. ↓ To Source List Biography: Demetrius was a grammarian of unknown origin, and information about him is scarce. Herodianus1 (2nd c. CE) mentions him ( Sch. Il. 8, 233b), and this serves as a terminus ante quem and the sole point of reference …

Entry Version: This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Fausto Montana and first published on 09/01/2006 – 23/09/2009. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Nicanor [3] | Νικάνωρ Identity: Perseus | BNP | BNJ Place of Origin: Alexandria Date: Age of Hadrian ↓ To Source List Biography: The biographical entry in the Suda1 (ν 375) tells us that the Alexandrian grammarian Nicanor, the son of Hermias2, lived in the age of Hadrian3, and it establishes that he was a contemporary of the grammarian Hermi…

Entry Version: This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Claudio Meliadò and first published on 31/10/2017. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Attalus [1] | Ἄτταλος Identity: BNP Place of Origin: Rhodes Date: mid-2nd c. BCE ↓ To Source List Biography: Attalus was an astronomer1 and mathematician2 of the mid-2nd c. BCE (Kidd 1997, p. 18) and an older contemporary of Hipparchus3. He revised the text of Aratus’4 Phaenomena5, probably based on a collation of several manuscripts (Lui…