Apollonius Dyscolus
Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics:
Top
Apollonius Dyscolus
Greek grammarian, working in Alexandria in the 2nd century ad. Three works survive in more than fragments, among them most of his treatment of syntax (in Latin De Constructione). This meant in antiquity the syntax of the individual parts of speech; hence, in particular, an account of solecism, or ungrammaticality, as arising from a mismatch in the semantic properties of individual words. Of the grammarians whose thought we can assess directly, Apollonius is the earliest in the west whose preoccupations were those of a linguist in the present-day sense, and the nature of some important categories, such as infinitives, seems to have been first clarified by him.
Wikipedia on Answers.com:
Top
Apollonius Dyscolus
For other uses, see Apollonius.
| Apollonius Dyscolus | |
|---|---|
| Born | 2nd C. Alexandria |
| Died | 2nd C. |
| Occupation | Grammarian |
| Parents | Mnesitheus of Alexandria (father) |
Apollonius Dyscolus (fl. 2nd century AD) is considered one of the greatest of the Greek grammarians. He was born at Alexandria, son of Mnesitheus. The dates for his life are not known. His son Aelius Herodianus dedicated a work to Marcus Aurelius, which places Apollonius in the early to middle 2nd century.
Nicknamed ὁ δύσκολος, meaning "the Surly or Crabbed or Hard to please", because of his irascible and heavily analytical personality, he lived in the reigns of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius. He spent the greater part of his life in his native city of Alexandria, where he died; he is also said to have visited Rome and attracted the attention of Antoninus. He was the founder of scientific grammar and is styled by Priscian grammaticorum princeps. He wrote extensively on the parts of speech. Of twenty books named in the Suda, four are extant: on syntax, ed. J. Lallot, 1997,[1] and three smaller treatises: on adverbs, on conjunctions, and on pronouns, ed. Richard Schneider, 1878.[2]
He and his son Aelius Herodianus had an enormous influence on all later grammarians.
References
 |
Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Apollonius (the Surly). |
- ^ Apollonius Dyscole, De la construction (syntaxe), vol. 1: Introduction, texte et traduction par Jean Lallot, Paris: Librairie philosophique J. VRIN 1997.
- ^ Apollonii Scripta minora a Richardo Schneidero edita, in Grammatici Graeci pars II Vol. I fasc. 1, Lipsiae: in aedibus B.G. Teubneri 1878. The Περὶ ἀντωνυμίας is found on pp. 3-116; Περὶ ἐπιρρημάτων 119-210; and Περὶ συνδέσμων 213-258. The previous edition of the last two treatises was by August Immanuel Bekker in his Anecdota Graeca vol. II (1816) (Περὶ συνδέσμων pp. 477-526, and Περὶ ἐπιρρημάτων pp. 527-625).
- Grammatici Graeci, pars secunda, voluminis primi fasc. I (1878); voluminis primi fasc. II (1902; Schneider's notes on vol. I fasc. I;), volumen alterum (1910), volumen tertium (1910), in Teubner series.
- Émile Egger, Apollonius Dyscole (1854)
- Apollonius Dyscole, De la construction (syntaxe), vol. 1: Introduction, texte et traduction par Jean Lallot, Paris: Librairie philosophique J. VRIN 1997.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
Further reading
- Andreas U. Schmidhauser, "Apollonius Dyscolus. De pronomine pars generalis", PhD thesis, University of Geneva, 2007. Comprehensive critical text with English translation.
External links
- Apollonius Dyscolus – a website dedicated to Apollonius.
This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)
Post a question - any question - to the WikiAnswers community:
Copyrights:
Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. © 2007
Oxford University Press.
All rights reserved.
Read more
