Philoxenus of Alexandria
Ancient Greek linguist
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Philoxenus of Alexandria[a] was an Ancient Greek linguist ("grammarian") who lived and worked in Alexandria.
Philoxenus of Alexandria | |
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Φιλόξενος | |
| Occupation | linguist |
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]
