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: Apollonius [11] Molo | Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Μόλων Identità: Pauly-Wissowa | BNP | BNJ Luogo di provenienza: Alabanda Data: 2°-1° sec. a.C. ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: Il soprannome con cui Apollonio era noto ai suoi contemporanei compare nelle fonti sia come ὁ Μόλων che come ὁ τοῦ Μόλωνος; questo fatto, discusso da Riese 1879 costituisce in realtà un problema soltanto apparente. È infatti evid…

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 07/11/2019. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Aretades | Ἀρητάδης Identity: Perseus | BNJ | FGrHist IV Place of Origin: Cnidus? Date: 3rd-1st c. BCE? ↓ To Source List Biography: There is no known biographical information about the grammarian Aretades. The mentions of an Aretades Κνίδιος who was the author of historical-ethnographical works on Macedonia (Μακεδονικά; Plut. 19, 308c, 6–12) and …

Versione della scheda: La prima versione italiana di questa scheda di Antonella Ippolito è stata pubblicata il 20/12/2005. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Genethlius | Γενέθλιος Identità: BNP Luogo di provenienza: Petra Data: 2° metà del 3° sec. d.C. ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: Le scarne notizie biografiche relative al retore Genetlio risalgono unicamente al lessico Suda (γ 132). Figlio di un uomo anch’egli di nome Genetlio e originario della città palestinese di Petra, si distinse per il suo talento e le straordinarie …

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…

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 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 published on 07/11/2019. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Soteridas (Soteras) | Σωτηρίδας (Σωτήρας) Identity: Pauly-Wissowa Place of Origin: Epidaurus? Date: 1st c. CE? ↓ To Source List Biography: The biographical information about this grammarian is preserved in two articles of the Suda, ones probably derived from Hesychius of Miletus1 (σ 875 and 876, s.v. Σωτηρίδας), as well as another article on Pamph…

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: Iubas [2] | Ἰόβας / Ἰούβας Identity: BNP Place of Origin: ? Date: end of the 2nd c. CE ↓ To Source List Biography: Juba is a metrician1 known from citations by late Latin grammarians, and in the past he was identified with the prolific scholar King Juba II of Mauretania2 (so B. ten Brink, Iubae Maurusii de re metrica scriptoris Latini reliquiae, Ultra…

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 26/04/2007. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Philippus [2] | Φίλιππος Place of Origin: ? Date: 2nd c. CE ↓ To Source List Biography: Galen1 ( Libr. 19, 16, 10ff. Kuhn) relates that, before his move from Pergamum to Smyrna (150 CE), he witnessed a conversation between two doctors, the dogmatist Pelops2 and an empiricist named Philippus. This experience became the basis of his Περὶ τῆς ἰατρικ…

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…

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 02/02/2005. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Archibius [1] | Ἀρχίβιος Place of Origin: ? Date: 2nd c. CE? ↓ To Source List Biography: Identifying Archibius with the son of Apollonius Sophista1 would place the former in the 2nd c. CE, but such a situation remains purely hypothetical: cf. F. Montanari, Apollonios [n. 12] Sophistes, N.P. 2 [1996], 884. Cohn seems to favor the identifi…

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…

Versione della scheda: La prima versione italiana di questa scheda di Antonella Ippolito è stata pubblicata il 12/07/2005. Qui si trova la versione inglese della scheda. Grammatico: Nome: Hermippus [2] | Ἕρμιππος Identità: BNP | FGrHist IV Luogo di provenienza: Berito Data: età adrianea ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: Di origine servile, nativo di un villaggio nell’interno della Fenicia che condivideva con il noto centro portuale il nome di Berito (cfr. la precisazione del lessico Suda, ε 3045, s.v. Ἕρμιππος), Ermippo fu allievo di Erennio Filone da Byblos (cfr. FGrHist n. 1060); pr…

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 26/04/2007. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Philippus [1] | Φίλιππος Identity: BNP | FGrHist IV Place of Origin: Opus Date: 4th c. BCE ↓ To Source List Biography: Very little is known about the life of Philip of Opus (for an attempt to reconstruct it cf. Oldfather, Lokrika, p. 462). The essential information has been preserved by Diogenes Laertius1 (3, 37. 3, 46) and by the Suda lexicon2 (φ 418…

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: Apollonius [10] Idographus | Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ εἰδογράφος Identità: Pauly-Wissowa | BNP Luogo di provenienza: Alessandria Data: 3°-2° sec. a.C. ↓ Elenco delle fonti Biografia: Sulla cronologia di Apollonio e la sua città di provenienza alcune informazioni sono contenute in POxy. 10. 1241. Nell’ambito di una crestomazia di argomento storico e mitologico, questo documento fornisce un elen…

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 02/02/2005. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Dorotheus | Δωρόθεος Identity: BNP Place of Origin: Ascalon Date: early Imperial age ↓ To Source List Biography: Dorotheus is mentioned as the author of a lexicon of Attic words entitled Λέξεων συναγωγὴ, Ἀττικὴ λέξις, or λέξεις Ἀττικαί; he reportedly dedicated a specific discussion to the Homeric1 use of the term κλίσιον (Porph. ad Od. 24, 208; 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 03/05/2007. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Minucianus | Μινουκιανός Identity: Pauly-Wissowa | BNP Place of Origin: Athens Date: 2nd c. CE ↓ To Source List Biography: The exact identity of the rhetoric1 teacher and writer Minucianus, who is known from the commentaries on the works of Hermogenes2, is very difficult to ascertain. A date generally accepted in the past – that …

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…

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 25/07/2006. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Pantaenus | Πάνταινος Identity: BNP Place of Origin: Sicilia? Date: 2° sec. d.C. ↓ To Source List Biography: The essential biographical information about Pantaenus, who was active in the reign of Marcus Aurelius1 and traditionally considered the first representative of the Alexandrian school2 of catechesis, is preserved by Eusebius3 ( HE. …

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 16/04/2007. Here is the Italian version of this entry. Grammarian: Name: Hegesander [1] | Ἡγήσανδρος Identity: Perseus | BNP Place of Origin: Delphi Date: 2nd c. BCE ↓ To Source List Biography: Hegesander, the author of a miscellany entitled Ὑπομνήματα, was a native of Delphi; the testimony of Athenaeus1 in this regard can be considered trustworthy despite the doubts aired by Pomtow ( Delphoi, RE 4, 2 [1901], 2523…