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Apollonius Dyscolus
Apollonius Dyscolus
c. 115 CE–c. 175 CE · Alexandria
Apollonius Dyscolus was a Greek grammarian of Alexandria in the 2nd century CE, regarded as the founder of systematic Greek grammatical theory, especially syntax. Several of his treatises survive, including a major work on syntax and shorter studies of pronouns, adverbs, and conjunctions, and his approach shaped grammatical thought for centuries. He was the father of the grammarian Aelius Herodianus.
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About Alexandria
Alexandria (al-Iskandariyya) is the great Mediterranean port-city of northern Egypt, founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE and a leading centre of learning in antiquity. After the Muslim conquest of Egypt (642) it remained a major commercial and scholarly hub; the Shadhili Sufi Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari (d. 1309) took his nisba from the city, and the modernist reformer Muhammad Abduh (d. 1905) was active in Egypt's intellectual life there and in Cairo.
In Alexandria at the same time
Aretaeus of Cappadocia, Dionysius Periegetes, Appian of Alexandria, Claudius Ptolemaeus, Harpocration, Achilles Tatius
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Aretaeus of Cappadocia, Dionysius Periegetes, Appian of Alexandria, Claudius Ptolemaeus, Harpocration, Achilles Tatius, Vettius Valens, Galen, Sextus Empiricus
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De constructione
Alexandria
De pronominibus
Alexandria
De Conjuctionibus
Alexandria