Aelius Herodianus

Aelius Herodianus (latin; AltGr Αἴλιος Ἡρωδιανός. ), Also called Herodian (* 180, † 250 ), was one of the most famous Greek grammarian in Greco -Roman period and a contemporary of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. He is not to be confused with the contemporary historian Herodianus.

As the son of Apollonius Dyskolos he was born in Alexandria. The surviving fragments of his works indicate that his work has focused on issues of stress or uplift of the individual syllables of words. Herodianus went to Rome, where he wrote his General theory accent ( prosody, prosody ), dedicated to Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Other works are a attizistisches lexicon, called Philhetaerus, and a study on irregular words. The extensive collections of Aelius Herodianus are the main source of all subsequent grammarians, of which he was highly valued. About his life has been nothing further known.

Works

• The particular style ( Περὶ μονήρους λέξεως ); single work of Aelius Herodianus that has been completely preserved.
• Categories ( Ἐπιμερισμοί, lat Partitiones )
• General teaching accents ( ἡ καθ ' ὅλου προσῳδία, also called " Kαθολικὴ προσῳδία " Latin De Prosodia catholica (German embracing prosody ) or " Mεγάλη προσῳδία " (Eng. Large prosody ) ); Work in 20 books, Emperor Marcus Aurelius was dedicated
• Attic prosody ( Ἀττικὴ προσῳδία )
• Accents ( Περὶ τόνων ), Arcadius awarded, probably written by a later grammarian named Theodosius of Byzantium.
• Figures ( Περὶ σχημάτων, De figuris ); published name under Herodians, but not coming from his pen. The author is known as "pseudo - Herodian ".
• Philetairos ( Φιλέταιρος ). It probably comes from Sulpicius Cornelianus, a rhetorician and secretary of Emperor Marcus Aurelius.