Versione della scheda: La 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…

Versione della scheda: La versione italiana di questa scheda di Antonella Ippolito è stata pubblicata il 04/04/2019. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Apollonides | Ἀπολλωνίδης Identità: Pauly-Wissowa | BNP Luogo di provenienza: Nicea Data: 1° sec. d.C. ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: Contemporaneo dell’imperatore Tiberio, al quale dedicò un commentario ai Silli di Timone di Fliunte (Diog. L. 9, 109), Apollonio di Nicea fu autore di opere filologiche di vario argomento. Ad una raccolta di proverbi (Περὶ παροιμιῶν) fa cenno Stefano di Bisanzio (τ 97 Bi…

Versione della scheda: La versione italiana di questa scheda di Valeria Bacigalupo è stata pubblicata il 01/10/2020. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Habron | Ἅβρων Identità: Pauly-Wissowa | BNP Luogo di provenienza: Frigia? Data: 1° sec. a.C.-1° sec. d.C. ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: Scarse notizie ci sono pervenute sulla vita di questo grammatico: dalla voce biografica a lui dedicata dalla Suda (α 97) ricaviamo che Abrone, frigio o rodiese (Φρὺξ ἢ Ῥόδιος: su questa alternativa vd. infra), fu allievo dell’alessandrino Trifone (=> Tryphon [1…

Versione della scheda: La versione italiana di questa scheda di Margarethe Billerbeck è Didier Clerc è stata pubblicata il 04/04/2019. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Stephanus | Στέφανος Luogo di provenienza: Bisanzio Data: 6° sec. d.C. ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: Vita e opere Non possediamo notizie dettagliate sulla vita e l’attività di Stefano di Bisanzio, che la Suda menziona solo brevemente nella voce Ἑρμόλαος (ε 3048 = T 8). La nostra conoscenza del lessicografo si basa quindi sulla sua stessa opera e su testimonianze pun…

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 07/11/2019. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Philogenes | Φιλογένης Place of Origin: ? Date: ? ↓ To Source List Biography: Philogenes is known only from rare references, and both his birthplace and his dating remain uncertain. In the absence of other useful information to identify him, we can say that his name occurs twice in the scholia vetera on the Alexandra of Lycophron1; a third citation, …

Versione della scheda: La versione italiana di questa scheda di Valeria Novembri è stata pubblicata il 7/11/2019. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Dionysius [16] Tryphonius | Διονύσιος ὁ Τρύφωνος Identità: Pauly-Wissowa | BNP Luogo di provenienza: ? Data: 1° sec. d.C. ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: Grammatico del 1° secolo d.C., allievo o forse figlio (l’appellativo ὁ Τρύφωνος permette entrambe le letture), del grammatico Trifone di Alessandria (=> Tryphon [1]), del quale riprese e ampliò l’opera Περὶ ὀνομασιῶν (Rohde 1870, p. 66; contra Cohn, 1903…

Entry Version: This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Valeria Novembri and published on 7/11/2019. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Dionysius [16] Tryphonius | Διονύσιος ὁ Τρύφωνος Identity: Pauly-Wissowa | BNP Place of Origin: ? Date: 1st c. CE ↓ To Source List Biography: Dionysius was a grammarian1 of the 1st c. CE and the student, or perhaps son (the name ὁ Τρύφωνος permits both readings), of the grammarian Tryphon of Alexandria2, whose work Περὶ ὀνομασιῶν he took up and extende…

Entry Version: This is the 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…

Entry Version: This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Marco Ercoles and published on 04/04/2019. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Pinytus | Πίνυτος Identity: Perseus | BNP Place of Origin: Bithynia Date: 1st c. CE ↓ To Source List Biography: The sole testimonium about Pinytus is provided by Stephanus of Byzantium1 (β 99, s.v.Βιθύνιον), who attests that he came from Bithynion or Claudiopolis (today Bolu, in northern Turkey) and that he worked as a γραμματικός2 (we are probably to u…

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…

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 [2] | Ἴστρος Place of Origin: Callatis Date: ? ↓ To Source List Biography: Only Stephanus of Byzantium1 (p. 349, 2 Meineke, s.v.Κάλλατις) mentions an Ister of Callatis, who was the author of a καλὸν βιβλίον περὶ τραγῳδίας of which we have no other testimony. There was probably originally in the Suda2 a life of our Ister, which was later blen…

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 26/07/2004. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Nicanor [2] | Νικάνωρ Identity: BNP Place of Origin: Cyrene Date: Hellenistic Age? ↓ To Source List Biography: The identification of this grammarian, who was a native of Cyrene according to Athenaeus1 (7, 296d), with the Alexandrian Nicanor son of Hermias2 was maintained in the past by Vossius ( Hist. Gr., 16512, p. 263) and Gräfenhan ( Klass. Philol., 1…

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…

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 Lara Pagani and first published on 20/02/2006. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Demetrius [2] | Δημήτριος Identity: BNP | BNJ Place of Origin: Scepsis Date: born ca. 205 BCE ↓ To Source List Biography: Demetrius was a scholar and antiquarian from Scepsis in the Troad, and he had a wealthy and noble background, as Diogenes Laertius1, who calls him a φιλόλογος (5, 84) among other things, informs us. Strabo2 calls him a contemporary of Cra…

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 06/02/2009. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Asclepiades [3] | Ἀσκληπιάδης Identity: BNP | BNJ Place of Origin: Alexandria/Nicaea? Date: ante 1st c. BCE-1st c. CE ↓ To Source List Biography: An Asclepiades described as “the Alexandrine” is cited in Sch. Aristoph. Nub. 37 on the subject of the Athenian office of demarch1. The fragment preserved in EGud. 355, 38-52, which concerns the law tablets (κύ…

Versione della scheda: La versione italiana di questa scheda di Marco Comunetti è stata pubblicata il 01/10/2020. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Nicocrates | Νικοκράτης Identità: Perseus | Pauly-Wissowa | BNJ Luogo di provenienza: Beozia? Data: 3° sec. a.C.? ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: Sulla biografia di Nicocrate non abbiamo informazioni, ma il materiale pervenuto ci permette di attribuirgli la composizione di due opere: un testo di carattere periegetico relativo alla Beozia e un saggio di natura erudita …

Entry Version: This is the 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…

Entry Version: This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Antonella Ippolito and published on 01/10/2020. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Parmeniscus | Παρμενίσκος Identity: Pauly-Wissowa | BNP Place of Origin: ? Date: ca. 2nd-1st c. BCE ↓ To Source List Biography: Despite the fact that practically nothing is known about the life of Parmeniscus, this grammarian of the Aristarchan1 school (cf. Blau 1883, p. 48) can be dated approximately to between the 2nd and 1st c. BCE. Against Crates (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 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 …