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- In full:
- Aelius Herodianus
- Byname:
- Herodianus Technicus
- Flourished:
- 2nd century ad
- Flourished:
- c.101 - c.200
- Notable Family Members:
- father Apollonius Dyscolus
- Subjects Of Study:
- Greek language
- accent
- grammar
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Herodian
Greek grammarian
Also known as: Aelius Herodianus, Herodianus Technicus
Herodian (flourished 2nd century ad) was a Greek grammarian of Alexandria who is important primarily for his work on Greek accents.
A son of the grammarian Apollonius Dyscolus, Herodian settled in Rome under the emperor Marcus Aurelius, to whom he dedicated a treatise on accentuation and quantity entitled Katholikē prosōdia (“General Prosody”). Extracts from it survive. His Peri monerous lexeos (“On Anomalous Words”), a discourse in which he disputes his father’s position on analogy, survives complete, and the titles of about 30 other works by him are known, though only a few extracts from them survive. A number of spurious and doubtful works were also attributed to him.
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