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Didymus was born around 63 BC.
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Didymos Kommentar zu Demosthenes: Papyrus 9780, nebst Wörterbuch zu Demosthenes' Aristocratea, Papyrus 5008 (German Edition)
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Didymos Kommentar zu Demosthenes, Papyrus 9780, nebst Wörterbuch zu Demosthenes' Aristocratea, Papyrus 5008
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In Demosthenem Commenta (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana)
( Written primarily in Greek, 1983 edition. )
Written primarily in Greek, 1983 edition.
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Didymi Chalcenteri Grammatici Alexandrini: Fragmenta Quae Supersunt Omnia (Cambridge Library Collection - Classics) (Ancient Greek Edition)
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Moritz Wilhelm Constantin Schmidt (1823-1888) published this work in 1854. It is a collection of the fragmentary Greek texts of Didymus Chalcenterus (63 BCE-10 CE), a grammarian and compiler who lived and taught in Alexandria and Rome. Didymus was perhaps the most prolific writer of antiquity: it is suggested by other ancient sources that he wrote between 3,500 and 4,000 books. Because he borrowed heavily from other authors, he is an important source for the lost work of writers such as Aristophanes and Aristarchus. Most of Didymus' own work has perished, but what remains is collected here by Schmidt. The fragments cover topics including lexicography; grammar and orthography; the style and language of authors such as Homer, Pindar, and Demosthenes; and ancient historical writing. The final group of fragments includes a number of texts of which the attribution to Didymus is uncertain.
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Didymus Chalcenterus
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Didymus Chalcenterus was an Ancient Greek scholar and grammarian who flourished in the time of Cicero and Augustus. His surname (Greek: Χαλκέντερος, "Didymus Bronze-Guts") came from his indefatigable industry: he was said to have written so many books (more than 3500) that he was unable to recollect their names.
Career
Didymus lived and taught in Alexandria and Rome, where he became the friend of Varro. He is chiefly important as having introduced Alexandrian learning to the Romans. He was a follower of the school of Aristarchus, upon whose recension of Homer he wrote a treatise, fragments of which have been preserved in the Venetian Scholia.
He also wrote commentaries on many other Greek poets and prose authors. In his work on the lyric poets he treated of the various classes of poetry and their chief representatives, and his lists of words and phrases (used in tragedy and comedy and by orators and historians), of words of doubtful meaning, and of corrupt expressions, furnished the later grammarians with valuable material. His activity extended to all kinds of subjects: grammar (orthography, inflexions), proverbs, wonderful stories, the law-tablets (ἄξονες) of Solon, stones, and different kinds of wood. His polemic against Cicero’s De republica (Ammianus Marcellinus xxii. 16) provoked a reply from Suetonius. In spite of his stupendous industry, Didymus was little more than a compiler, of little critical judgment and doubtful accuracy, but he deserves recognition for having incorporated in his numerous writings the works of earlier critics and commentators.
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Didymos Kommentar zu Demosthenes: Papyrus 9780, nebst Wörterbuch zu Demosthenes' Aristocratea, Papyrus 5008 (German Edition)
(Didymos Kommentar zu Demosthenes, Papyrus 9780, nebst Wör...)
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Didymi Chalcenteri Grammatici Alexandrini: Fragmenta Quae Supersunt Omnia (Cambridge Library Collection - Classics) (Ancient Greek Edition)
(Moritz Wilhelm Constantin Schmidt (1823-1888) published t...)
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In Demosthenem Commenta (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana)
( Written primarily in Greek, 1983 edition. )
- Homeri Opera (Four Volume Set)
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Didymos Kommentar zu Demosthenes: Papyrus 9780, nebst Wörterbuch zu Demosthenes' Aristocratea, Papyrus 5008 (German Edition)
