Entry Version: This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Giuseppe Ucciardello and first published on 01/03/2005. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Glaucon [1] | Γλαύκων Place of Origin: Tarsus Date: 3rd c. BCE (?) ↓ To Source List Biography: Glaucon is difficult to identify. He is cited in Sch. Il. 1, 1c (1, p. 4 Erbse) for the oxytonic accentuation of μῆνις, here supposed to be a mistake according to another trend of the ancient doctrine of accentuation (cf. Sch. C Dion. Thr. 169, 12 Hilg.1 πρῶτον μανθάνει ὁ εἰσαγόμενος, ὅτι μῆνιν βαρυτόνως δεῖ ἀναγινώσκειν). Several and often unfounded attempts have been made to better define this obscure grammarian, beginning especially with the possibility of identifying Glaucon of Tarsus with other figures named Glaucon. Sengebusch ( Hom. dissert. prior, 1855) thought that Glaucon of Tarsus was the glossographer2 cited in Athenaeus3 and that the person mentioned by Porphyry4 ad Il. 1, 168, 10 (Schr.) could be Glaucon of Rhegium5 (on this erroneous identification cf. F. Jacoby, Glaukos [n. 36], RE 7, 1 [1912], 1417-1420). Hiller ( Glaukos, 1886) suspected, as did Sengebusch ( cit.), that our Glaucon was the glossographer of Athenaeus, and maintained that the same Glaucon was quoted also in Sch. Il. 16, 414 (4, pp. 254-255 Erbse), in which a grammarian named Γλαύκων is mentioned in reference to a question of prosody; on the other hand, Welcker ( Ep. Cyclus, 1865-1…