Notable Members
Important members of the Alexandrian grammarians included:
- Zenodotus of Ephesus (fl. ca. 280 BCE): First superintendent of the Library of Alexandria and editor of Homer.
- Callimachus (fl. ca. 260 BCE): Poet, critic, and scholar who cataloged the Library.
- Aristophanes of Byzantium (ca. 257 BCE–ca. 185 BCE): Editor of Homer and inventor of the polytonic orthography of classical Greek.
- Aristarchus of Samothrace (ca. 220–ca. 143 BCE): Responsible for the most important critical edition of the Homeric poems.
- Dionysius Thrax (170 BCE–90 BCE): Homeric scholar and student of Aristarchus, who did author a Greek grammar, although it did not discuss syntax.
- Didymus Chalcenterus: (ca. 63 BCE–10 CE): Commentator on lyric and comic poets, who compiled and transmitted the work of his predecessors.
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