In the Greco-Roman world, the grammarian (Latin: grammaticus) was responsible for the second stage in the traditional education system, after a boy had...
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and 2nd centuries BCE Biblical grammarians, scholars who study the Bible and the Hebrew language Grammarian (Greco-Roman), a teacher in the second stage...
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Grammaticus is the Latin word for grammarian; see Grammarian (Greco-Roman). It is also used to refer to a Roman patrician school. As an agnomen, it...
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Composition studies Conversation theory Demagogy Discourse analysis Grammarian (Greco-Roman world) Language and thought Multimodality New rhetoric Pedagogy...
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Roman Religion". Literacy in the Roman World. University of Michigan Press. pp. 59ff.; Dickie, Matthew (2001). Magic and Magicians in the Greco-Roman...
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Aelius Herodianus (category Ancient Greek grammarians)
century CE) was a Greek historian and one of the most celebrated grammarians of Greco-Roman antiquity. He is usually known as Herodian except when there is...
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during the Greco-Persian Wars Tolmides – Athenian general Triphiodorus or Tryphiodorus – epic poet Tynnichus – poet Tyrannion of Amisus – grammarian Tyrimmas...
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Ancient Greece–Ancient India relations (redirect from Ancient Greco–Indian trade)
Greeks Yaunas) or from some Semitic language. The traditional Indian grammarians believed that the word Yavanas was derived from the Sanskrit root Yu...
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satrap of Susiana appointed in 220 BC Apollodorus (jurist) (fl. 435–438), Greco-Roman jurist Apollodorus (physician), two physicians mentioned by Pliny the...
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Indo-Greek Kingdom (redirect from Greco-Indian)
lacking for India. The main Greco-Roman source on the Indo-Greeks is Justin, who wrote an anthology drawn from the Roman historian Pompeius Trogus, who...
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the throne of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom by toppling the Euthydemid dynasty's king Antimachus I. Dionysios Thrax, a Hellenic grammarian who will live and...
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mentioned in ancient Greco-Roman accounts as a Nanda king. While describing Alexander the Great's invasion of Punjab (327–325 BCE), Greco-Roman writers depict...
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History of geography (redirect from Greco-Roman geography)
as long as 35 miles (56 km), would have been impossible. During the Greco-Roman era, those who performed geographical work could be divided into four...
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constellation Castor, one of the Dioscuri/Gemini twins Castor and Pollux in Greco-Roman mythology Castor or CASTOR may also refer to: Castor (rocket stage),...
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Athens, Greek writer, grammarian, and historian Bion of Smyrna, Greek poet Gaius Lucilius, Roman satirist Lutatius Catulus, Roman poet, orator and historian...
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flourishing of grammarians and lexicographers. Expertise in language and literature contributed to preserving Hellenic culture in the Roman Imperial world...
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Religion in ancient Rome (redirect from Roman Paganism)
Latin literature by Cato the Elder, in a surviving quote by the late grammarian Priscian. Supposed Greek origins for the Aricia cult are strictly a literary...
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Juno (mythology) (redirect from Juno (Roman religion and mythology))
Rutulians against Aeneas' attempt to found a new Troy in Italy. Servius the Grammarian, commenting on some of her several roles in the Aeneid, supposes her as...
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Lucifer (section Roman folklore and etymology)
"Lucifer" (Light-Bringer) is a proper noun and is capitalized in English. In Greco-Roman civilization, it was often personified and considered a god and in some...
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or less repeated in the exact same way by later authors, such as the grammarian Patanjali (2nd-century BCE) in his Mahabhashya. The word śavati is equivalent...
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Marcus Cornelius Fronto (category Ancient Roman rhetoricians)
Cornelius Fronto (c. 100 – late 160s AD), best known as Fronto, was a Roman grammarian, rhetorician, and advocate. Of Berber origin, he was born at Cirta...
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Mars (mythology) (redirect from Mars (Roman religion and mythology))
The Celtic epithet may refer to malt or beer, though intoxication in Greco-Roman religion is associated with Dionysus. A reference in Pliny suggests a...
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Cassius Dio (redirect from Roman History (Cassius Dio))
Fragments that were dispersed throughout various writers, scholiasts, grammarians, and lexicographers, and were collected by Henri Valois Fragmenta Peiresciana...
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170s BC (section Roman Republic)
Thrax, a Hellenic grammarian who will live and work in Alexandria and later on Rhodes (d. 90 BC) Lucius Accius (or Lucius Attius), Roman tragic poet and...
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Weddings in ancient Rome (redirect from Roman wedding)
2024-09-16 Hersch, Karen (2020). "Violence in the Roman Wedding". The Discourse of Marriage in the Greco-Roman World. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-32840-5...
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Ephesus (category Ancient Roman theatres in Turkey)
the philosopher Heraclitus, the great painter Parrhasius and later the grammarian Zenodotos and physicians Soranus and Rufus. About 560 BC, Ephesus was...
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modern Calabria, Italy. He wrote the Histories, a detailed account of the Greco-Persian Wars, and was the first writer to apply a scientific method to historical...
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180s (section Roman Empire)
180 March 17 – Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor (b. 121) Aulus Gellius, Roman author and grammarian (b. 125 AD) Gaius, Roman jurist and writer (approximate...
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AD) Ptolemaeus Chennus (2nd century AD), a grammarian who lived in the Alexandrine Greek culture of Roman Egypt Ptolemaeus and Lucius (d. c. 165 AD),...
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"ritual prescriptions" or "ritual acts." The plural form is endorsed by Roman grammarians. Hendrik Wagenvoort maintained that caerimoniae were originally the...
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