Tryphon

For other people with this or similar names, see Tryphon (disambiguation).

Tryphon or Trypho (Greek: Τρύφων, gen.: Τρύφωνος) (ca. 60 BC-10 BC) was a Greek grammarian who lived and worked in Alexandria. He was a contemporary of Didymus Chalcenterus.

He wrote several specialized works on aspects of language and grammar, from which only a handful of fragments now survive. These included treatises on word-types, dialects, accentuation, pronunciation, and orthography, as well as a grammar (Τέχνη Γραμματική, Tékhne grammatiké) and a dictionary. The two extant works that bear his name, On Meters and On Tropes, may or may not be by him. He had a pupil named Abron.[1]

In popular culture

In the original French edition of The Adventures of Tintin, Professor Cuthbert Calculus is known as Professeur Tryphon Tournesol (Professor Tryphon Sunflower).

References

Footnotes

  1. Smith, William (1867), "Abron", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology 1, Boston, MA, p. 3

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