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Philostephanus
(8,377 words)
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versione italiana di questa scheda di Valeria Novembri è stata pubblicata il 07/11/2019. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Philostephanus | Φιλοστέφανος Identità: Perseus | Pauly-Wissowa | BNP Luogo di provenienza: Cirene Data: 3° sec. a.C. ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: Le uniche notizie biografiche in nostro possesso su Filostefano derivano da Ateneo (8, 331d–e), che lo definisce originario di Cirene e γνώριμος di Callimaco, usando lo stesso termine attestato in
P.Oxy. 1241, col. 2, rr. 2–3 per definire il rapport…
Persaeus
(8,614 words)
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English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Valeria Novembri and published on 07/11/2019. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Persaeus | Περσαῖος Place of Origin: Citium Date: ca. 305-? BCE ↓ To Source List Biography: Persaeus was a Stoic philosopher, a student of Zeno1 and, like him, a native of Citium. The majority of the information that we have about him comes from the
Historia stoicorum of Philodemus2 (
PHerc. 1018) and from some passages of the section dedicated to…
Isigonus
(4,003 words)
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English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Michele Corradi and first published on 28/07/2016. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Isigonus | Ἰσίγονος Identity: Place of Origin: Nicaea Date: 1st c. BCE? ↓ To Source List Biography: A native of Nicaea, according to Pliny1 (nat. 7, 2, 12), Gellius2 (9, 4, 3–4), and Stephanus of Byzantium3 ( ν 52 Billerbeck, s.v
.Νίκαια, where we should accept Holst’s conjecture of Ἰσίγονος for the preserved ἀρήγονος; cf. Billerbeck 2014, p. 38…
Alexander [5] Aetolus
(3,773 words)
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English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Fausto Montana and published on 01/11/2018. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Alexander [5] Aetolus | Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Αἰτωλός Identity: Perseus | BNP Place of Origin: Pleuron Date: ca. 315-? BCE ↓ To Source List Biography: The
Suda1 (α 1127 = test. 1 Snell-Kannicht = test. 1 Magnelli) tells us that Alexander Aetolus was born at Pleuron in Aetolia and that his parents were named Satyrus and Stratocleia. Elsewhere (α 3745 = test. 2 Snel…
Andronicus
(5,790 words)
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English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Mario Regali and first published on 22/12/2008. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Andronicus | Ἀνδρόνικος Identity: BNP Place of Origin: Rhodes Date: 1st c. BCE. ↓ To Source List Biography: Andronicus was a Peripatetic1 philosopher, and his edition of Aristotle’s2 school writings constituted an essential milestone in the transmission of the
corpus and fostered the rebirth of Aristotelianism3 in the imperial age. The sour…
Sabinus [1]
(17,878 words)
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English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Tommaso Raiola and published on 04/04/2019. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Sabinus [1] | Σαβῖνος Identity: Pauly-Wissowa | BNP Place of Origin: Alexandria? Date: beginning of the 2nd c. CE ↓ To Source List Biography: A commentator on Hippocrates1, Sabinus worked quite probably at Alexandria in the first half of the 2nd c. CE; his
floruit can be dated generally to a generation before Galen2. He certainly was dead by ca. 170-1…
Pamphila
(5,301 words)
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English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Antonella Ippolito and published on 02/04/2020. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Pamphila | Παμφίλη Identity: Perseus | Pauly-Wissowa | BNP Place of Origin: Epidaurus Date: 1st c. CE ↓ To Source List Biography: The essential biographical information about Pamphila is contained in the
Suda (π 139) and in cod. 175 of the
Library of Photius1 we have information about her historiographical work. She was probably the daughter o…
Persaeus
(8,541 words)
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versione italiana di questa scheda di Valeria Novembri è stata pubblicata il 07/11/2019. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Persaeus | Περσαῖος Luogo di provenienza: Citio Data: 305 ca.-? a.C. ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: Filosofo stoico, discepolo di Zenone (=> Zenon [1]) e, come lui, originario di Cizio. La maggior parte delle notizie sul suo conto derivano dalla
Historia stoicorum di Filodemo (PHerc. 1018) e da alcuni passi della sezione dedicata a Zenone nelle
Vite dei filosofi di Diogene Laerzio. Quest’ultimo (7, 6)…
Apion
(31,725 words)
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English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Valeria Bacigalupo and published on 07/11/2019. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Apion | Ἀπίων Identity: Perseus | Pauly-Wissowa | BNP | BNJ | FGrHist IV Place of Origin: Oasis Date: 1st c. BCE – 1st c. CE ↓ To Source List Biography: A dense web of notices allows us to date the life and career of the Egyptian grammarian Apion, a native of Oasis (Ios.
Ap. 2, 29), to between the end of the 1st c. BCE and the first half of the 1st c. CE. We lear…
Pamphila
(4,852 words)
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versione italiana di questa scheda di Antonella Ippolito è stata pubblicata il 02/04/2020. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Pamphila | Παμφίλη Identità: Perseus | Pauly-Wissowa | BNP Luogo di provenienza: Epidauro Data: 1° sec. d.C. ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: Essenziali notizie biografiche su Panfila sono contenute nella
Suda (π 139) e nel cod. 175 della
Biblioteca di Fozio, riguardante la sua opera storiografica. Probabilmente era figlia del grammatico Soteridas (=> Soteridas [Soteras]), nonostan…
Sabinus [1]
(17,971 words)
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versione italiana di questa scheda di Tommaso Raiola è stata pubblicata il 04/04/2019. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Sabinus [1] | Σαβῖνος Identità: Pauly-Wissowa | BNP Luogo di provenienza: Alessandria? Data: inizio 2° sec. d.C. ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: Commentatore di Ippocrate, Sabino operò molto probabilmente ad Alessandria nella prima metà del 2°secolo d.C.; il suo
floruit è collocabile all’incirca una generazione prima di Galeno. Era sicuramente morto nel decennio 170-180, periodo nel qu…
Philostephanus
(8,642 words)
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English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Valeria Novembri and published on 07/11/2019. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Philostephanus | Φιλοστέφανος Identity: Perseus | Pauly-Wissowa | BNP Place of Origin: Cyrene Date: 3rd c. BCE ↓ To Source List Biography: The sole biographical information for Philostephanus in our possession comes from Athenaeus1 (8, 331d–e), who calls him a native of Cyrene and a γνώριμος of Callimachus2, thus using the same term attested in
P.Oxy.…
Apion
(31,680 words)
Versione della scheda: La
versione italiana di questa scheda di Valeria Bacigalupo è stata pubblicata il 07/11/2019. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Apion | Ἀπίων Identità: Perseus | Pauly-Wissowa | BNP | BNJ | FGrHist IV Luogo di provenienza: Oasis Data: 1º sec. a.C.-1º sec. d.C. ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: Una fitta trama di notizie ci permette di collocare la vita e l’attività del grammatico egiziano Apione, nativo di Oasis (Ios.
Ap. 2, 29), tra la fine del 1° sec. a.C. e la prima metà del 1° d.C. Dalla voce a lui dedicata dalla
Suda (α 3215 Adler) appren…
