Alexandrine grammarians

Alexandrine grammarians

Alexandrine grammarians, based in the Hellenistic Alexandria founded by Alexander the Great in 332 BCE, [http://www.greece.org/alexandria/outline.htm Alexandria - An historical outline ] ] where experts in grammar which marked the beginning of the Western grammatical tradition.Thogmartin (1984) p.344] A well known defect of their commentary and analysis is that their subject matter tend to be focused on de-contestualized sentences. [Harris 1982]

The Alexandrine grammarians undertook the critical revision of the texts of the Greek classics. [Charles Thomas Cruttwell " [http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_histromlit_3_4.htm A History of Roman Literature: From the Earliest Period to the Death of Marcus Aurelius] " ]

ee also

*Library of Alexandria
*Zenodotus of Ephesus
*Aristophanes of Byzantium
*Callimachus
*Aristarchus of Samothrace

Notes

References

*Harris, Roy (1982) "The Language Myth", London, Duckworth.
*Thogmartin, Clyde (1984) " [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0016-111X(198402)57%3A3%3C344%3ATAACIF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-0 Tense, Aspect, and Context in French Narrative] " The French Review, Vol. 57, No. 3 (Feb., 1984), pp. 344-349


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