Carytius of Pergamum () was an

ancient Greek Ancient Greek (, ; ) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the classical antiquity, ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Greek ...

grammarian who lived at the end of the 2nd century BCE, all of whose works are now lost. Among his works were ''Historical Notes'' (Ἱστορικα ὑπομνήματα), ''On the Dramatic Poets'' (Περι διδασκαλιῶν), and ''On

Sotades Sotades (; 3rd century BC) was an Ancient Greek poet. Sotades was born in Maroneia, either the one in Thrace, or in Crete. He lived in Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus (285–246 BC). The city was at that time a remarkabl ...

'' (Περι Σωτάδου). The first of these was used by

Athenaeus Athenaeus of Naucratis (, or Nαυκράτιος, ''Athēnaios Naukratitēs'' or ''Naukratios''; ) was an ancient Greek rhetorician and Grammarian (Greco-Roman), grammarian, flourishing about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century ...

in composing the ''

Deipnosophistae The ''Deipnosophistae'' (, ''Deipnosophistaí'', lit. , where ''sophists'' may be translated more loosely as ) is a work written in Ancient Greek by Athenaeus of Naucratis. It is a long work of Greek literature, literary, Ancient history, h ...

'', in which many of its passages are preserved.

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* {{authority control Ancient Greek grammarians People from Pergamon 2nd-century BC Greek writers