• 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 world). It is also used to refer to a Roman patrician school. As an agnomen,...
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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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  • during the Greco-Persian Wars Tolmides – Athenian general Triphiodorus or Tryphiodorus – epic poet Tynnichus – poet Tyrannion of Amisus – grammarian Tyrimmas...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    in ancient Greco-Roman accounts as a Nanda king. While describing Alexander the Great's invasion of Punjab (327–325 BCE), the Greco-Roman writers depict...
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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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    Berlin (Berlin, Germany) Byzantine culture was initially the same as Late Greco-Roman, but over the following millennium of the empire's existence, it slowly...
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    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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    flourishing of grammarians and lexicographers. Expertise in language and literature contributed to preserving Hellenic culture in the Roman Imperial world...
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    Greeks Yaunas) or from some Semitic language. The traditional Indian grammarians in their etymological theory about the word Yavanas, believed that the...
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  • Alexandrian grammarian Ptolemaeus and Lucius (d. c. 165 AD), Christian martyrs Ptolemy (gnostic) (c. 180 AD), a religious philosopher of Roman Italy and...
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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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    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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    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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    father of Ceyx, while the Latin grammarian Servius makes him the father of the Hesperides or of Hesperis. In the classical Roman period, Lucifer was not typically...
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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Fragments that were dispersed throughout various writers, scholiasts, grammarians, and lexicographers, and were collected by Henri Valois Fragmenta Peiresciana...
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    He is known for having written the Histories – a detailed account of the Greco-Persian Wars. Herodotus was the first writer to perform systematic investigation...
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    Lynwood Smith, Daniel (2015). Into the World of the New Testament: Greco-Roman and Jewish Texts and Contexts. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 133–. ISBN 978-0-567-65742-8...
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    Planudes (c. 1260 – c. 1305), Rome, Venice, anthologist, mathematician, grammarian, theologian Franciscus Portus (1511–1581), Venice, Ferrara, Geneva John...
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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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