Alexandrine grammarians
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Alexandrine grammarians, based in the Hellenistic Alexandria founded by Alexander the Great in 332 BCE,[1] where experts in grammar which marked the beginning of the Western grammatical tradition.[2] A well known defect of their commentary and analysis is that their subject matter tend to be focused on de-contestualized sentences.[2][3]
The Alexandrine grammarians undertook the critical revision of the texts of the Greek classics.[4]
[edit] See also
- Library of Alexandria
- Zenodotus of Ephesus
- Aristophanes of Byzantium
- Callimachus
- Aristarchus of Samothrace
[edit] Notes
- ^ Alexandria - An historical outline
- ^ a b Thogmartin (1984) p.344
- ^ Harris 1982
- ^ Charles Thomas Cruttwell A History of Roman Literature: From the Earliest Period to the Death of Marcus Aurelius
[edit] references
- Harris, Roy (1982) "The Language Myth", London, Duckworth.
- Thogmartin, Clyde (1984) Tense, Aspect, and Context in French Narrative The French Review, Vol. 57, No. 3 (Feb., 1984), pp. 344-349
