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Oribasius
(10,056 words)
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English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Serena Buzzi and published on 04/04/2019. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Oribasius | Ὀρειβάσιος/Ὀριβάσιος Place of Origin: Pergamum Date: 4th c. CE ↓ To Source List Biography: Oribasius (Ὀρειβάσιος/Ὀριβάσιος), a famous doctor1 and scholar who lived ca. 320-390 CE, has come to be considered the founder of Byzantine encyclopedism in the area of practical literature (
Gebrauchsliteratur: cf. Garzya 1981; Ieraci Bio 1982…
Eudaemon
(6,390 words)
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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: Eudaemon | Εὐδαίμων Identity: Pauly-Wissowa | BNP Place of Origin: Pelusium Date: 4th c. CE ↓ To Source List Biography: Eudaemon was a grammarian1 and poet, as well as a contemporary of Libanius2, who was his friend and epistolary correspondent (Lib.
epist. 167, 255, 633); he was born ca. 314–324 CE and died before 392 CE (so Kaster 1988, p.…
Dexippus
(1,156 words)
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English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Antonella Ippolito and first published on 18/07/2006. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Dexippus | Δέξιππος Identity: Perseus | BNP Place of Origin: ? Date: 4th c. CE…
Sopater [1]
(4,489 words)
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English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Carla Castelli and published on 04/04/2019. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Sopater [1] | Σώπατρος Identity: Pauly-Wissowa Place of Origin: Apamea Date: 4th c. CE ↓ To Source List Biogra…
Polemon [2]
(1,573 words)
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English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Giuseppe Ucciardello and first published on 22/11/2004. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Polemon [2] | Πολέμων Place of Origin: ? Date: 4th c. CE ↓ To Source List Biography: Polemon is a grammarian whom Johannes Lydus1, in the course of a geographical note, mentions as a commentator on Lucan’s2
Pharsalia3: Lydus cites Polemon for the idea that the Epirotes were descended from the Syrians, which evidently appears in the exegesis of Luc.
Phars. 5, 94 “… elicit …
