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Also Known As Didymus Chalcenterus
Flourished c.80 BCE - 10 BCE
Subjects Of Study Homer • Greek language • grammar
Lucian
Greek writer
Aristophanes Of Byzantium
Greek critic and grammarian
Manuel Moschopoulos
Byzantine grammarian
George Of Trebizond
Byzantine humanist
Madvig, drawing by Emilius-Ditlev Baerentzen, c. 1845; in Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen
Johan Nicolai Madvig
Danish scholar
Friedrich Bechtel
German scholar
Chrysoloras
Manuel Chrysoloras
Greek scholar
Phrynichus Arabius
grammarian and rhetorician
Herodian
Greek grammarian
Apollonius Dyscolus
Greek grammarian
Julius Caesar Scaliger
French scholar
August Schleicher, engraving
August Schleicher
German linguist
Lucius Livius Andronicus
Roman author
Robert Fitzgerald
American poet
Friedrich August Wolf
German philologist
Morris-Jones, oil painting by Christopher Williams, 1924; in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
Sir John Morris-Jones
Welsh author, scholar, and educator
Wackernagel, Jacob
Jacob Wackernagel
Swiss linguist
Murray, Gilbert
Gilbert Murray
British scholar
Constantine Lascaris
Byzantine grammarian
Adamántios Koraïs
Greek scholar

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