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Antidorus of Cyme

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Antidorus Cyme


Antidorus of Cyme or Cumae was alive in the time of Alexander III of Macedon. He worked under the influence of Eratosthenes, having some influence on the spirit of the not yet newly born science of grammar, and noted as a grammarian approximately 340-330 B.C.

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The Various Definitions of Grammar

γραμματική (meaning grammar), when used within ancient Greece had these meaning:

  • The term grammarian as understood in the earlier classical sense: knowledge of the letters of the alphabet (this being the meaning commonly) and the numbers of these;by this is meant- a person knowing how to read.
  • As understanding developed the term is used for a teacher of reading.Theagenes of Rhegium (fl.550B.C) was the earliest allegorical interpreter of Homer,as this is so, he is perhaps the first person to have the term γραμματικη acceptably applied.
  • During the Alexandrian age "a student of literature especially of poetry".

    • Arguments

    According to a tradition, the first person to have a developed designation of γραμματικός applied to his activities ergo himself was a pupil of Theophrastus,the philosopher of the peripatetic school of Praxiphranes of Rhodes, active and flourishing about 300B.C, although another tradition shows Antidorus might instead be the first γραμματικός.

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