Tryphon or Trypho ( el, Τρύφων, ''gen''.: Τρύφωνος; c. 60 BC – 10 BC) was a
Greek grammarian
Grammarian may refer to:
* Alexandrine grammarians, philologists and textual scholars in Hellenistic Alexandria in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE
* Biblical grammarians, scholars who study the Bible and the Hebrew language
* Grammarian (Greco-Roman ...
who lived and worked in
Alexandria
Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandri ...
. He was a contemporary of
Didymus Chalcenterus
Didymus Chalcenterus (Latin; Greek: , ''Dídymos Chalkéderos'', "Didymus Bronze-Guts"; c. 63 BC – c. AD 10), was an Ancient Greek scholar and grammarian who flourished in the time of Cicero and Augustus.
Life
The epithet "Bronze-Guts" came ...
.
He wrote several specialized works on aspects of
language and
grammar, from which only a handful of fragments now survive. These included
treatise
A treatise is a formal and systematic written discourse on some subject, generally longer and treating it in greater depth than an essay, and more concerned with investigating or exposing the principles of the subject and its conclusions." Trea ...
s on word-types,
dialects,
accentuation
In linguistics, and particularly phonology, stress or accent is the relative emphasis or prominence given to a certain syllable in a word or to a certain word in a phrase or sentence. That emphasis is typically caused by such properties as i ...
,
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.
References
Footnotes
Sources
*''Der Kleine Pauly,'' hg. Konrad Ziegler, Walther Sontheimer, Hans Gaertner, München, 1979, s.v. Tryphon 4
Suda On Line s.v. Tryphon
Ancient Greek grammarians
60 BC births
10 BC deaths
Trope theorists
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