Aper (grammarian)

Aper was a Greek grammarian, who lived in ancient Rome in the time of the emperor Tiberius. He belonged to the school of Aristarchus of Samothrace. He was a strenuous opponent of the grammarian Didymus Chalcenterus, and he wrote numerous polemical works attacking this author.[1] One of the students of Didymus, Heraclides Ponticus the Younger, wrote works in defense of his master, and attacking Aper.[2]

Some scholars have hypothesized that the reading of "Aper" is incorrect here, especially seeing as our information on him is so scant, and it is likely another grammarian is meant, perhaps Apion.[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ Suda, s. v. Ἡρακλείδης
  2. ↑ Montanari, Franco; Matthaios, Stefanos; Rengakos, Antonios, eds. (2015). Brill's Companion to Ancient Greek Scholarship. Brill's Companions in Classical Studies. Brill Publishers. pp. 223–224. ISBN 9789004281929. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
  3. ↑ Braswell, Bruce Karl (2015). Billerbeck, Margarethe, ed. Didymos of Alexandria: Commentary on Pindar. Schweizerische Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft 41. Schwabe AG. pp. 34–35. ISBN 9783796534935. Retrieved 2016-02-21.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Charles Peter Mason (1870). "Aper". In Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology 1. p. 224. 

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