Philoxenus of Alexandria
Ancient Greek grammarian
About Philoxenus of Alexandria
Philoxenus of Alexandria was a grammarian and glossographer.
Philoxenus of Alexandria was an Ancient Greek linguist ("grammarian") who lived and worked in Alexandria.
Biography He was born and lived in Alexandria.
Career He studied morphology, etymology, lexicography, dialectology, metrics and Homeric criticism.
He taught in Rome in the second half of the 1st century BC. He took part in the polemics between analogists and anomalists, and influenced contemporaries, including Varro.
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