Grammarians and Emperors
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10289255 |
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| Authors | Christopher P Jones (0000-0002-6807-2380, Department of Classics, Harvard University Cambridge, MA USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 58-71 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-07 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mnemosyne (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-7074 • E-ISSN: 1568-525X |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/1568525x-bja10136 |
| OpenAlex | W4206132551 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
The Greek γραμματικός combined several functions: as editor and expounder of texts, linguist, librarian, lecturer, courtier and sometimes as ambassador for his monarch or city. In due course Latin-speaking grammatici applied philological skills developed at Alexandria to their own literature, and served as librarians in the great libraries of the imperial period. The present paper studies some Greek γραμματικοί active in Rome, particularly Alexander of Cotiaeon, appointed by Antoninus Pius as tutor to the princes Marcus and Lucius, and also the teacher of Aelius Aristides. As Aristides’ tribute to him shows, Alexander was not only a notable critic and influential teacher, but acted as a benefactor ( εὐεργέτης ) of his native city, in this respect comparable to the sophists who were his contemporaries
Art · Art history · Literature · Mathematics education · Period (music · Philology · Political science · Tribute · TUTOR · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Law · Linguistics and language evolution · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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