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Entry Version: This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Antonella Ippolito and first published on 12/07/2005. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Hermippus [2] | Ἕρμιππος Identity: BNP | FGrHist IV Place of Origin: Berytus Date: reign of Hadrian ↓ To Source List Biography: A man of slave origin and a native of a village in Phoenicia that shared the name of Berytus with the famous port (cf. the clarification of the Suda1 lexicon, ε 3045, s.v. Ἕρμιππος), Hermippus was a student of Herennius Phil…

Versione della scheda: La prima versione italiana di questa scheda di Antonella Ippolito è stata pubblicata il 16/02/2006. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Apollonides | Ἀπολλωνίδης Identità: BNP Luogo di provenienza: Nicea Data: prima età imperiale ↓ 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 (p. …

Entry Version: This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Antonella Ippolito and first published on 11/05/2005. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Heracleon [1] | Ἡρακλέων Identity: BNP Place of Origin: Tilotis in Egypt Date: age of Augustus ↓ To Source List Biography: Heracleon was the son of Glaucus or Glaucon, as we learn from Stephanus of Byzantium1 ( s.vv. Ἀγυιά, Ἀρέθουσα, Κροκύλειον), and a native of Tilotis, an Egyptian village near Heracleopolis; he worked as a teacher at Rome (cf. Su…

Versione della scheda: La prima versione italiana di questa scheda di Antonella Ippolito è stata pubblicata il 12/12/2006. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Hephaestion | Ἡφαιστίων Identità: Perseus | BNP Luogo di provenienza: Alessandria Data: 2° sec. d.C. ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: Sono assai scarsi i dati biografici sul metricologo Efestione. O. Hense ( Hephaistion [n. 7], RE 8, 1 [1912], p. 295) lo ritenne figlio di Tolomeo Chenno (=> Ptolemaeus [4]), considerando suo avo l’Efestione menzionato dalla Suda come padre del grammatico (ε 2004, s. v. Ἐ…

Entry Version: This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Antonella Ippolito and first published on 28/08/2006. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Dionysius [13] Scytobrachion | Διονύσιος ὁ Σκυτοβραχίων Identity: Perseus | BNP | BNJ Place of Origin: Mitylene? Date: 3rd c. BCE ↓ To Source List Biography: It is not clear what the reason was for the nickname Scytobrachion, “Leather-arm”, which is attested in the Suda1, by Athenaeus2, and by Suetonius3 for the mythographer Dionysius, wh…

Entry Version: This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Antonella Ippolito and first published on 20/12/2005. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Genethlius | Γενέθλιος Identity: BNP Place of Origin: Petra Date: second half of the 3rd c. CE ↓ To Source List Biography: The meagre biographical information that we have about the rhetorician Genethlius comes solely from the Suda1 lexicon (γ 132). He was the son of a man also named Genethlius and a native of the Palestinian cit…

Entry Version: This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Antonella Ippolito and first published on 20/05/2008. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Orus | Ὦρος Identity: BNP Place of Origin: Alexandria Date: 5th c. CE ↓ To Source List Biography: The Suda1 , which drew on Hesychius of Miletus’2 Onomasticon3, informs us that Orus, a native of Alexandria, taught at Constantinople; we do not know whether his teaching was connected with an imperial post (cf. K. Alpers, Das attizistische Lexikon…

Versione della scheda: La prima versione italiana di questa scheda di Antonella Ippolito è stata pubblicata il 29/06/2005. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Eutecnius | Εὐτέκνιος Identità: BNP Luogo di provenienza: ? Data: 3°/5° sec. d.C. ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: Con il nome di Eutecnius è noto l’autore di una parafrasi in prosa degli Ἀλεξιφάρμακα e dei Θηριακὰ di Nicandro di Colofone, contenuta nel codice Vindob. med. gr. 1, il celebre testimone di Dioscoride, datato intorno al 512 d.C. Le parafrasi, nella stessa maius…

Entry Version: This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Antonella Ippolito and first published on 22/03/2006. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Soteridas (Soteras) | Σωτηρίδας (Σωτήρας) Identity: Place of Origin: Epidaurus Date: 1st c. CE ↓ To Source List Biography: The biographical information we have about this grammarian comes from two entries in the Suda1 , probably derived from Hesychius of Miletus2 (σ 875 and 876, s.v.Σωτηρίδας); we can add to these another on Pamphile3 (π 139, s.…

Entry Version: This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Antonella Ippolito and first published on 16/12/2005. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Gaianus | Γαϊανός Place of Origin: Arabia Date: first half of the 3rd c. CE ↓ To Source List Biography: The only information on this scholar comes from the Suda1: Gaianus was a native of Arabia and a student of Apsines of Gadara2; he was active in the time of Maximinus3 and Gordian III4 and worked as a grammarian and rhetorician in Berytus. H…

Entry Version: This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Antonella Ippolito and first published on 22/12/2005. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Herminus | Ἑρμῖνος Identity: BNP Place of Origin: Pergamum? Date: 2nd c. CE (120–180/190 CE?) ↓ To Source List Biography: The information that we have about the life of Herminus, an exegete of Aristotle’s1 works, who is mentioned among the teachers of Alexander of Aphrodisias2, is quite meager. Zeller (E. Zeller, Die Philosophie der Grieche…

Entry Version: This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Antonella Ippolito and first published on 12/12/2006. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Hephaestion | Ἡφαιστίων Identity: Perseus | BNP Place of Origin: Alexandria Date: 2nd c. CE ↓ To Source List Biography: The biographical information that we have for the metrician1 Hephaestion is quite meager. O. Hense ( Hephaistion [n. 7], RE 8, 1 [1912], p. 295) thought that he was the son of Ptolemy Chennos2 and that his grandfather was th…

Versione della scheda: La prima versione italiana di questa scheda di Antonella Ippolito è stata pubblicata il 12/12/2006. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Iubas [2] | Ἰόβας / Ἰούβας Identità: BNP Luogo di provenienza: ? Data: fine 2° sec. d.C. ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: Metricologo noto attraverso citazioni da parte di grammatici latini tardi, in passato identificato con il poligrafo Giuba II re di Mauritania (=> Iubas [1] II; così B. ten Brink, Iubae Maurusii de re metrica scriptoris Latini reliquiae, Ultrajecti ad Rhenum 1854.; ancora incer…

Entry Version: This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Antonella Ippolito and first published on 06/12/2005. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Alexander [1] | Ἀλέξανδρος Identity: Perseus | BNJ Place of Origin: Myndus Date: First half of the 1st c. CE ↓ To Source List Biography: Nothing at all is known about the life of Alexander of Myndus, who for a long time was identified with Alexander Polyhistor1. Freudenthal ( Alex. Pol., 1875, pp. 18, 204) first made the distinction betwee…

Versione della scheda: La prima versione italiana di questa scheda di Antonella Ippolito è stata pubblicata il 26/04/2007. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Philippus [2] | Φίλιππος Luogo di provenienza: ? Data: 2° sec. d.C. ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: Galeno ( Libr. 19, 16, 10 ss. Kuhn) informa di avere assistito, prima ancora del suo trasferimento da Pergamo a Smirne (150 d.C.), ad una conversazione tra due medici, il dogmatico Pelope ed un empirico di nome Filippo. Questa esperienza sarebbe alla base del suo Περὶ τῆς ἰατρικῆς ἐμπειρίας (1, 411 ss. K…

Versione della scheda: La prima versione italiana di questa scheda di Antonella Ippolito è stata pubblicata il 11/05/2005. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Heracleon [1] | Ἡρακλέων Identità: BNP Luogo di provenienza: Tilotis d’Egitto Data: età augustea ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: Figlio di Glauco o Glaucone, come apprendiamo da Stefano di Bisanzio ( s.vv. Ἀγυιά, Ἀρέθουσα, Κροκύλειον), ed originario di Tilotis – un villaggio egiziano nei pressi di Heracleopolis –, Eracleone svolse attività di insegnamento a Roma (cfr. Sud. η 455 e Sch. Il. 21, 577;…

Versione della scheda: La prima versione italiana di questa scheda di Antonella Ippolito è stata pubblicata il 20/05/2008. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Orus | Ὦρος Identità: BNP Luogo di provenienza: Alessandria Data: 5° sec. d.C. ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: La Suda, che attinge all’ Onomasticon di Esichio di Mileto, informa che Oros, originario di Alessandria, insegnò a Costantinopoli; non sappiamo se la sua attività didattica fosse legata ad un incarico imperiale (cfr. K. Alpers, Das attizistische Lexikon des Oros. Untersuchung und k…

Entry Version: This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Antonella Ippolito and first published on 29/06/2005. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Eutecnius | Εὐτέκνιος Identity: BNP Place of Origin: ? Date: 3rd/5th c. CE ↓ To Source List Biography: Eutecnius is known as the author of a prose paraphrase of Nicander of Colophon’s1 Ἀλεξιφάρμακα2 and Θηριακὰ3 that is contained in the codex Vindob. med. gr. 14, the famous witness of Dioscurides5 dated to ca. 512 CE. The paraphrases are …

Entry Version: This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Antonella Ippolito and first published on 29/06/2005. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Parmeniscus | Παρμενίσκος Identity: BNP Place of Origin: ? Date: ca. 2nd-1st c. BCE ↓ To Source List Biography: Although we know practically nothing about the life of Parmeniscus, the dating of this grammarian with Alexandrian1 tendencies can be fixed approximately between the 2nd and 1st c. BCE. Against Crates (Πρὸς Κράτητα) was actually t…

Versione della scheda: La prima versione italiana di questa scheda di Antonella Ippolito è stata pubblicata il 18/07/2006. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Dexippus | Δέξιππος Identità: Perseus | BNP Luogo di provenienza: ? Data: 4° sec. d.C. ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: Il neoplatonico Dessippo, discepolo di Giamblico (Simp. in Cat. 8, 2, 25 ss.), non è sicuramente da identificare con lo storico P. Erennio Dessippo, come sembra fare Giovanni Tzetzes ( Hist. 274, 490–494); tale ipotesi, inizialmente difesa da Mai ( Script. vet., 1825–1838, 2 pp. 31…