Telephus of Pergamum
Telephus of Pergamum (Ancient Greek: Τήλεφος ὁ Περγαμηνός) was a Greek Stoic grammarian and historian who flourished in the second century CE. He was a tutor of the future Roman emperor Lucius Verus.[1][2]
According to his fellow Pergamene, Galen, Telephus lived to nearly one hundred years of age.[3]
Telephus appears to have maintained that Homer represented the purest form of Greek, opposing stricter Atticist scholars who regarded Classical Athenian Greek as the only proper linguistic model.[3]
The following works are attributed to Telephus of Pergamum by Suda:[4]
- A grammatical work (its title is lost).
- Περὶ τῶν παρ' Ὁμήρῳ σχημάτων ῥητορικῶ (On the Rhetorical Figures in Homer) (2 books).
- Περὶ συντάξεως λόγου Ἀττικοῦ (On the Syntax of Attic Discourse) (5 books).
- Περὶ τῆς καθ᾿ Ὅμηρον ῥητορικῆς (On Rhetoric in Homer).
- Περὶ τῆς Ὁμήρου καὶ Πλάτωνος συμφωνίας (On the Agreement of Homer and Plato).
- Ποικίλης φιλομαθείας (Love of Varied Learning) (2 books).
- Βίους τραγικῶν καὶ κωμικῶν (Lives of Tragic and Comic Dramatists).
- Βιβλιακῆς ἐμπειρίας (Expertise concerning Books) (3 books), in which he discusses which books are worth buying.
- Ὅτι μόνος Ὅμηρος τῶν ἀρχαίων ἑλληνίζει (That Homer Alone among the Ancients Writes Correct Greek).
- Περιήγησιν Περγάμου (Description of Pergamum).
- Περὶ τοῦ ἐν Περγάμῳ Σεβαστίου (On the Temple of Augustus in Pergamum) (2 books).
- Περὶ τῶν Ἀθήνησι δικαστηρίων (On the Courts in Athens).
- Περὶ τῶν Ἀθήνησι νόμων καὶ ἐθῶν (On the Laws and Customs of Athens).
- Περὶ τῶν Περγάμου βασιλέων (On the Kings of Pergamum) (5 books).
- Περὶ χρήσεως ἤτοι ὀνομάτων ἐσθῆτος καὶ τῶν ἄλλων οἷς χρώμεθα (On the Names and Usage of Clothing and Other Everyday Objects), alphabetically arranged.
- Περὶ τῆς Ὀδυσσέως πλάνης (On the Wanderings of Odysseus).
- Ὠκυτόκιον (Easy Birth) (10 books), a collection of epithets and expressions intended to assist writers and orators in achieving fluent expression.
All of his works are lost,[5] although a number of fragments and testimonia attributed to Telephus survive.[6]
References
[edit]- ↑ Hendrickson, Thomas (2017). Ancient Libraries and Renaissance Humanism: The De bibliothecis of Justus Lipsius. Brill. p. 11. ISBN 978-9004338166.
- ↑ Telephus (2), of Pergamum, Stoic grammarian, 2nd cent. CE, Oxford Classical Dictionary, Telephus
- 1 2 Swain, Simon (1996). Hellenism and Empire: Language, Classicism, and Power in the Greek World, AD 50-250. Oxford University Press. p. 55-56. ISBN 978-0198147725.
- ↑ Suda, Telephus
- ↑ Χηνιάδης Δημήτριος – Λεξικό αρχαίων γεωγράφων και ιστοριογράφων της ελληνικής γλώσσας, p.403
- ↑ Telephus Pergamenus 2. Jh