Manuel Moschopoulos

Manuel Moschopulos (Greek: Μανουήλ Μοσχόπουλος, * 1265, † 1316 ), nephew of the Metropolitan of Crete, Nikephoros Moschopulos, was a pupil and friend of Maximos Planudes and one of the great Byzantine philologists.

His most important work is a grammar in question and answer form ( Έρωτήματα γραμματικά, Erotémata grammatiká ) to a no longer extant Byzantine template that was used a lot in the early days of Greek humanism as a textbook. In addition Moschopulos dealt with the works of numerous Greek poets ( Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, the Attic tragedians and others ), whose surviving texts he commented, liberated by their own patches of tradition errors. He was also author of a number of philological treatises. However, the going under his name lexicon of Attic words probably comes not by himself, but by an unknown author.