Aelius Herodianus

Aelius Herodianus

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name = Herodian ("Aelius Herodianus")


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birth_date = ca. 180
birth_place = Alexandria
death_date = ca. 250
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occupation = grammarian
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Aelius Herodianus (Latin; Greek polytonic|Αἴλιος Ἡρωδιανός) or Herodian, ca. 180-250, was one of the most celebrated grammarians of Greco-Roman antiquity. He is usually known as Herodian except when there is a danger of confusion with the historian also named Herodian.

He was the son of Apollonius Dyscolus and was born in Alexandria. From there he seems to have moved to Rome, where he gained the favour of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, to whom he dedicated a work on prosody. No further biographical particulars are known.

Works

He was held in very high esteem by subsequent grammarians; Priscian describes him as "maximus auctor artis grammaticae" ("the greatest creator of grammatical art"). He wrote many works, but they are mostly fragmentary and it is very difficult to compile an accurate list of them. In numerous instances it is impossible to tell whether the titles given by writers who quote from his works are distinct treatises, or only portions of larger works. In addition, there are ongoing debates over which works were written by him and which were not. Some works by lesser-known figures are known to have been reattributed to Herodian, presumably in order to increase the prestige of the works.

In total some fifty titles are known in connection with Herodian's name. The main works attached to his name (both rightly and wrongly) are as follows (the most usual way of citing each title is highlighted in bold):

* "On peculiar style" ("polytonic|περὶ μονήρους λέξεως"). Probably the only complete work of Herodian's to have survived.
* "Categories" (polytonic|ἐπιμερισμοί, "Partitiones"). Devoted to explanations of difficult words found in Homer; many important quotations from the "Partitiones" are found in the scholia on Homer.
* "General prosody" (polytonic|ἡ καθ' ὅλου προσῳδία, or polytonic|καθολικὴ προσῳδία, or polytonic|μεγάλη προσῳδία; "De prosodia catholica"), in twenty books. Herodian dedicated this work to Marcus Aurelius. It covered prosody and etymology. An epitome and an index survive. It is possible that several other titles known to us were in fact parts of the "Prosody": namely the "Homeric prosody" (polytonic|Ὁμηρικοὶ προσῳδία); "Attic prosody" (polytonic|Ἀττικὴ προσῳδία); and "Equal prosody" (polytonic|ἀνόμαλος προσῳδία). A work entitled "On accents" (polytonic|περὶ τόνων), attributed to Arcadius but compiled by a later grammarian, Theodosius of Byzantium, seems to be an extract from Herodian's "Prosody".
* "On figures" (polytonic|περὶ σχημάτων, "De figuris"). This work is known to be spurious, i.e. it is transmitted under Herodian's name but was not written by him. The author is referred to as "pseudo-Herodian".
* "Philetaerus" (polytonic|φιλέταιρος). This work is also known to be spurious; it has been suggested that it was in fact by Cornelianus. [S. Argyle 1989, "A new Greek grammarian", "Classical Quarterly" 39.2: 524-35.]

ee also

* Homeric scholarship
* Venetus A

Editions

*"General edition". August Lentz and Arthur Ludwich 1979 [1867-70] , "Herodiani Technici reliquiae", reprint (Hildesheim, orig. Lentz); cited by volume and page number.
*"Scholia on the Iliad." Erbse, H. 1969-1988, "Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem", 7 vols. (Berlin).
*"De figuris" (spurious). Kerstin Hajdú 1998, "Ps.-Herodian, De figuris: Überlieferungsgeschichte und kritische Ausgabe" (Berlin, New York). ISBN 3-11-014836-6

Earlier publications:
* "Partitiones". Boissonade, J.F. 1963 [1819] , "Herodiani Partitiones", reprint (Amsterdam).
* "De prosodia catholica". August Lentz 1965 [1867] , "Grammatici Graeci" vol. 3.1, reprint (Hildesheim).
* "Epitome of "De pros. cath". Moritz Schmidt 1983 [1860] , "Epitome tes katholikes prosodias", reprint (Hildesheim).
* "Works reconstructed from Iliad scholia." Lehrs, K. 1857 [1848] , "Herodiani scripta tria emendatiora", 2nd ed. (Berlin).
* "Philetaerus" (spurious). Johann Pierson et al. 1969 [1830-31] , "Moeridis Atticistae Lexicon Atticum", reprint (Hildesheim); "Philetaerus" ed. Georg Aenotheus Koch.
* "Other works." [http://www.tlg.uci.edu/ "TLG Canon"]

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