Entry Version: This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Eleonora Rocconi and first published on 14/11/2007. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Theon [3] | Θέων Identity: Perseus | BNP Place of Origin: Smyrna Date: 1st-2nd c. CE ↓ To Source List Biography: Theon was a philosopher and mathematician of Platonic1-Pythagorean2 orientation, but we have only a few scraps of biographical information about him. From Claudius Ptolemaeus’3 astronomical treatise known as the Almagest4 (where T…

Entry Version: This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Fausto Montana and published on 7/11/2019. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Latinus | Λατῖνος Identity: Pauly-Wissowa | BNP Place of Origin: ? Date: ante 3rd c. CE ↓ To Source List Biography: The name of the grammarian Λατῖνος, which is attested in a fragment of the first book of the Φιλόλογος ἀκρόασις of Porphyry1 cited by Eusebius of Caesarea2 ( PE. 10, 3, 12) and which was in the past considered the result of corruption (for example, by Meineke 1823, p. XXXIII [HathiTrust]), is actually common among Greek names of the imperial period, as several inscriptions indicate (cf. Ziegler 1950). Porphyry mentions a discussion between Platonists3 held by Longinus4 at Athens, in the course of which a certain Apollonius5 (identified as the teacher of Porphyry: cf. Woerther 2015, p. 127 with n. 172) cited three scholars who were interested in instances of literary κλοπή ( furtum) found in the plays of Menander6: Aristophanes of Byzantium7, Latinus, and Caecilius (of Calacte)8. On the basis of the sequence of the names, Stemplinger (1912, pp. 51-52) maintained that Latinus lived a little after Caecilius (Augustan Age), but this inference remains hypothetical. The se…

Entry Version: This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Claudio Meliadò and published on 04…

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: Euclides | Εὐκλείδης Place of Origin: ? Date: ? ↓ To Source List Biography: We have no information about the time period, place of origin, or life of Euclides and even the historical reality of this figure has been called into doubt. He is mentioned in relation to the structure of Attic tragedy and comedy in some passages of Johannes Tzetzes1, who menti…