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 04/04/2019. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Lysimachus | Λυσίμαχος Identity: Perseus | Pauly-Wissowa | BNP | BNJ Place of Origin: ? Date: 3rd/2nd c. BCE? ↓ To Source List Biography: The information we have about Lysimachus is meager and uncertain. We do not know his city of origin: some sources call him an Alexandrian (ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς: Sch. Ap. Rh. 1, 558 and Sch. Soph. OC. 91), but this should probab…

Versione della scheda: La versione italiana di questa scheda di Claudio Meliadò è stata pubblicata il 04/04/2019. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Parmenon | Παρμένων Identità: Perseus | Pauly-Wissowa | BNP Luogo di provenienza: Bisanzio Data: ante 1° sec. d.C.? ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: Glossografo nativo di Bisanzio, Parmenone fu autore di uno scritto Περὶ διαλέκτων in almeno quattro libri ( Sch. ex. Il. 21, 259d). La forma del nome è rimasta incerta fino alla pubblicazione, nel 1986, di POxy. 3710 (2° sec. d.C.), che cita il nostro grammatico come Π…

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 04/04/2019. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Theodorus [5] | Θεόδωρος Place of Origin: ? Date: ? ↓ To Source List Biography: This grammarian is mentioned as the fifth in a series of twenty men named Theodorus by Diogenes Laertius1 (2, 104), who furnishes us with the only secure attestation of him and credits him with a work entitled Περὶ νομοποιῶν, ἀρξάμενος ἀπὸ Τερπάνδρου. The meaning of this exp…

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 04/04/2019. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Parmenon | Παρμένων Identity: Perseus | Pauly-Wissowa | BNP Place of Origin: Byzantium Date: before 1st c. CE? ↓ To Source List Biography: A glossographer1 born in Byzantium, Parmenon was the author of a work Περὶ διαλέκτων in at least four books ( Sch. ex. Il. 21, 259d). The form of his name remained uncertain until the publication, in 1986, of POxy. 3710 (2n…

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 01/11/2018. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Dionysius [2] | Διονύσιος Identity: BNP Place of Origin: Sidon Date: second half of the 2nd c. BCE? ↓ To Source List Biography: Dionysius was a grammarian1 who probably lived in the second half of the 2nd c. BCE and whom Sengebusch (1855, p. 30) included among Aristarchus' pupils2. He worked chiefly on the text of Homer3, dealing with textual, prosodic4, an…

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 01/11/2018. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Dionysius [10] Cyclographus | Διονύσιος Identity: Perseus | Pauly-Wissowa | BNJ Place of Origin: Rhodes or Samos Date: 3rd/2nd c. BCE? ↓ To Source List Biography: We know from the Suda (δ 1881, FGrHist 15 T 1) that Dionysius was the son of Musonius, that he was from Rhodes or Samos, that he was a priest of the temple of Helios1, and that he was the author of Local …

Versione della scheda: La versione italiana di questa scheda di Claudio Meliadò è stata pubblicata il 01/11/2018. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Leptines | Λεπτίνης Identità: Pauly-Wissowa Luogo di provenienza: ? Data: 2°/1° sec.a.C.? ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: Identificato, probabilmente a torto, da Boeckh 1819, p. 248 con il Leptine citato nel catalogo degli scritti di Crisippo, questo grammatico è menzionato in uno scolio a Pindaro ( O. 10, 55b) insieme con Aristodemo di Elide (=> Aristodemus [4]) e un Dionisio non meglio ind…

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 01/11/2018. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Epitherses | Ἐπιθέρσης Identity: Pauly-Wissowa | BNP Place of Origin: Nicaea Date: first half of the 1st c. CE ↓ To Source List Biography: Epitherses was a grammarian1 who lived in the first half of the 1st c. CE and was the author of a work entitled Περὶ λέξεων Ἀττικῶν καὶ κωμικῶν καὶ τραγικῶν in at least two books, according to Stephanus of Byzantium2 (pp. 47…

Versione della scheda: La versione italiana di questa scheda di Claudio Meliadò è stata pubblicata il 04/04/2019. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Theon [1] | Θέων Identità: BNP Luogo di provenienza: ? Data: 1° sec. a.C. ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: Teone, figlio di Artemidoro di Tarso (=> Artemidorus [1]), seguace di Aristofane di Bisanzio (<=), visse in età augustea o negli ultimi anni del periodo repubblicano (Bongelli 2000, p. 281) e guidò la scuola filologica di Alessandria prima di Apione (<=) (Matth…

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 04/04/2019. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Lycophron | Λυκόφρων Identity: Perseus | Wikipedia | Pauly-Wissowa | BNP Place of Origin: Chalcis on Euboea Date: 4th/3rd c. BCE ↓ To Source List Biography: A grammarian1, a tragic writer2, and a member of the Pleiad, Lycophron was a native of Chalcis, the son of Socles, and the adoptive son of Lycus of Rhegium3. He wrote 64 or 46 tragedies; we know t…

Versione della scheda: La versione italiana di questa scheda di Claudio Meliadò è stata pubblicata il 01/11/2018. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Euphorion | Εὐφορίων Identità: Perseus | BNP Luogo di provenienza: Calcide di Eubea Data: 275/268 a.C.-? ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: Autore versatile, nato a Calcide all’incirca tra il 275 e il 268 a.C. Secondo la Suda studiò poesia presso Archebulo di Tera e filosofia presso Lacide (a capo dell’Accademia dopo il 241/40) e Pritanide (peripatetico, ancora in vita nel 222) ad Ate…

Versione della scheda: La versione italiana di questa scheda di Claudio Meliadò è stata pubblicata il 01/11/2018. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Epitherses | Ἐπιθέρσης Identità: Pauly-Wissowa | BNP Luogo di provenienza: Nicea Data: prima metà del 1° sec. d.C. ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: Grammatico vissuto nella prima metà del 1° sec. d.C. e autore di uno scritto in almeno due libri Περὶ λέξεων Ἀττικῶν καὶ κωμικῶν καὶ τραγικῶν, secondo la testimonianza di Stefano di Bisanzio (ν 52 Billerbeck), Epiterse è probabilmente da identificarsi con …

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 04/04/2019. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Sim(m)ias | Σιμ(μ)ίας Identity: Perseus | Pauly-Wissowa | BNP Place of Origin: Rhodes Date: 4th/3rd c. BCE ↓ To Source List Biography: Sim(m)ias was the inventor of the technopaignion1 and the author of a collection of glosses2 in three books ( Sud. σ 431), and so he is considered a representative of the poet-philologists, who are the examples par excelle…

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 04/04/2019. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Socrates [1] | Σωκράτης Identity: Pauly-Wissowa Place of Origin: Cos Date: before 1st c. BCE? ↓ To Source List Biography: Socrates is a grammarian1 of unknown date who has been wrongly identified by Gudeman (1927) as Socrates of Argos2. A chronological detail that could be relevant is Demetrius of Magnesia3, a grammarian of the 1st c. BCE, whose work Περὶ …

Versione della scheda: La versione italiana di questa scheda di Claudio Meliadò è stata pubblicata il 04/04/2019. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Socrates [2] | Σωκράτης Identità: Pauly-Wissowa | BNP | BNJ Luogo di provenienza: Argo Data: ante 1° sec. a.C.? ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: Grammatico argivo vissuto secondo Halliday 1928, p. 116, e Griffiths 1970 nel 2° sec. d.C., secondo Gudeman 1927 nel 3°. Elemento cronologico di una certa rilevanza potrebbe essere Demetrio di Magnesia (=> Demetrius [3]), grammatico del 1° sec. a.C., il cui scritto Περὶ…

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 01/11/2018. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Helladius [3] | Ἑλλάδιος Identity: Pauly-Wissowa | BNP | FGrHist IV Place of Origin: Alexandria Date: 4th-5th c. CE ↓ To Source List Biography: Helladius was a priest of Zeus1 at Alexandria and lived during the reign of Theodosius II2; because he was involved in the disorders following the destruction of the Serapeum, he had to flee to …

Versione della scheda: La versione italiana di questa scheda di Claudio Meliadò è stata pubblicata il 01/11/2018. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Dionysius [2] | Διονύσιος Identità: BNP Luogo di provenienza: Sidone Data: seconda metà del 2° sec. a.C.? ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: Grammatico vissuto probabilmente nella seconda metà del 2° sec. a.C. e inserito da Sengebusch 1855, p. 30 nella schiera dei discepoli di Aristarco. Lavorò soprattutto sul testo di Omero, trattando di problemi testuali, prosodici e g…

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 04/04/2019. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Theodorus [2] | Θεόδωρος Identity: Pauly-Wissowa | BNP | BNJ Place of Origin: ? Date: before second half of the 1st c. CE ↓ To Source List Biography: The grammarian named Theodorus who was author, according to Athenaeus1, of Ἀττικαὶ γλῶσσαι (14, 646c. 15, 678d) or Ἀττικαὶ φωναί (15, 677b) was identified as Theodorus ὁ παναγής2 by Jacoby (1923–1958, 3b ( Komm…

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 04/04/2019. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Theodorus [3] | Θεόδωρος Place of Origin: Soli Date: ? ↓ To Source List Biography: A philosopher1 and mathematician2 from Soli, Theodorus was the author of a commentary on Plato’s3 Timaeus, in which he examined the mathematical theories present in the philosopher’s works (cf. Plut. De def. or. 32, 427a: ἐξηγούμενος τὰ μαθηματικὰ τοῦ Πλάτωνος). In dial…

Versione della scheda: La versione italiana di questa scheda di Claudio Meliadò è stata pubblicata il 10/10/2023. Grammatico: Nome: Anatolius | Ἀνατόλιος Identità: Pauly-Wissowa Luogo di provenienza: ? Data: 6° sec. d.C. (?) ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: Grammatico di provenienza ignota, attivo probabilmente ad Alessandria nel 6° sec. d.C., se si può prestare fede a quanto riporta Olimpiodoro nella Vita di Platone che apre il suo Commento all’Alcibiade. Qui egli riferisce che Anatolio si guadagnò la stima di Flavius Ioannes Theodorus Menas Narses Chnoubammon H…