Philoxenus of Alexandria
Philoxenus of Alexandria | |
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Φιλόξενος | |
| Occupation | linguist |
Philoxenus of Alexandria[a] was an Ancient Greek linguist ("grammarian") who lived and worked in Alexandria.
Biography
He was born and lived in Alexandria.[1]
Career
He studied morphology, etymology, lexicography, dialectology, metrics and Homeric criticism.[2][3]
He taught in Rome in the second half of the 1st century BC. He took part in the polemics between analogists and anomalists, and influenced contemporaries, including Varro.[3]
Bibliography
He is the author of a number of notable books. He wrote a treatise on the Laconian dialect.
Some of his best known works were republished in 1976 by De Gruyter as The fragments of the grammarian Philoxenus (German: Die Fragmente des Grammatikers Philoxenos).[4]
Notes and references
Notes
- ^ Ancient Greek: Φιλόξενος, romanized: Philoxenos.
References
- ^ "A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, Saba or Saba Hamartolus or St. Saba, Septi'mius, Sere'nus, Ae'lius". www.perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved 4 May 2025.
- ^ "Philoxenus". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 4 May 2025.
- ^ a b "Filòsseno di Alessandria". Treccani. Enciclopedia (in Italian). Retrieved 4 May 2025.
- ^ "Philoxenus, of Alexandria, active 1st century B.C". Internet Archive. Retrieved 4 May 2025.
External links
- "Philoxenus(4)". Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.5025. Retrieved 4 May 2025.
- "Philoxenus of Alexandria". Scaife Viewer. Retrieved 4 May 2025.
- "Philoxenus". Reference Works. Brill. Retrieved 4 May 2025.