Versione della scheda: La prima versione italiana di questa scheda di Lara Pagani è stata pubblicata il 27/06/2007 - 25/07/2011. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Aristeas | Ἀριστέας Luogo di provenienza: Rodi Data: età alessandrina (1° sec. a.C.?) ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: La provenienza di Aristea da Rodi si può ricavare da un passo di Eroziano in cui sono elencati grammatici che composero opere lessicografiche su Ippocrate (p. 5, 16-18 Nachmanson). Lì sono nominate insieme due figure di cui si precisa l’origine rodia (cfr. Anastassiou-Irmer, Tes…

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 31/10/2005. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Menecrates [1] | Μενεκράτης Identity: Perseus | BNP Place of Origin: Ephesus Date: 4th-3rd c. BCE ↓ To Source List Biography: Menecrates was a poet and a grammarian, native of Ephesus. Since he taught Aratus of Soli1 ( Sud.α 3745), he probably lived between the 4th and 3rd c. BCE. He was the author of a poem on agriculture and apiculture (prov…

Versione della scheda: La prima versione italiana di questa scheda di Lara Pagani è stata pubblicata il 31/10/2005. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Menecrates [1] | Μενεκράτης Identità: Perseus | BNP Luogo di provenienza: Efeso Data: 4°–3° sec. a.C. ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: Poeta e grammatico originario di Efeso, Menecrate fu maestro di Arato di Soli ( Sud. α 3745) e dovette perciò vivere tra il 4° e il 3° sec. a.C. Fu autore di un’opera in versi su agricoltura e apicoltura (a meno che i frammenti relativi a quest’ulti…

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 - 28/06/2008. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Dionysius [15] Thrax | Διονύσιος ὁ Θρᾷξ Identity: Perseus | BNP | BNJ Place of Origin: Alexandria? Date: ca. 170-90 BCE ↓ To Source List Biography: Sources have given us scant and sometimes contradictory information about the life of Dionysius Thrax. Regarding his place of origin the Scholia Vaticana on the Techne (pp. 160, 24-161, 6 Hil…

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 27/06/2007 - 25/07/2011. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Aristeas | Ἀριστέας Place of Origin: Rhodes Date: Alexandrine age (1st c. BCE?) ↓ To Source List Biography: We can recover the native land of Aristeas of Rhodes from a passage of Erotianus1 that lists grammarians who composed lexicographical works on Hippocrates2 (p. 5, 16-18 Nachmanson); it names two figures who were born in Rhod…

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 22/12/2005. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Theodorus [1] | Θεόδωρος Identity: BNP | BNJ Place of Origin: Gadara Date: akmé ca. 33 BCE ↓ To Source List Biography: Theodorus was a native of Gadara in Coele Syria and the son of slaves ( Sud.θ 151); he was a rhetorician and reached his akmé ca. 33 BCE, the year in which he is registered in Jerome’s1 Chronicon among the “nobilissimi artis rhetoricae Gr…