Didymus
historical figure · 3 works · 6 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Didymus the grammarian · the grammarian Didymus
spoken of as
1 expressionDidymus the grammarian2 mentions
Protrepticus (Greek) · Stromata (Greek)
and Didymus the grammarian adds to these a sixth, the son of Magnes.
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Stromata
Scholar cited repeatedly on maxim attributions among the sages.
Didymus assigns it to Solon, just as he assigns to Cleobulus the "Measure is best.
And Didymus, in his work On Pythagorean Philosophy, relates that Theano of Croton was the first of women to philosophize and to write poems.
I pass over the others, then, for the length of the discourse, neither cataloguing the poetesses—Corinna and Telesilla and Myia and Sappho—nor the women painters, such as Eirene the daughter of Cratinus and Anaxandra the daughter of Nealces, of whom Didymus speaks in the Symposiaca.
Protrepticus
Grammarian who adds a sixth Apollo to Aristotle's list.
and Didymus the grammarian adds to these a sixth, the son of Magnes.
Letters to Lucilius
A grammarian noted for writing an enormous, criticized body of scholarly work
The grammarian Didymus wrote four thousand books.