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“Greek grammarian and philologist; pupil of Aristarchus of Samothrace; and alleged author of the Téchnē grammatikḗ (‘Art of Grammar’), which became the standard grammar handbook in Constantinople after the 5th cent.” 1

Names

  • Dionysius Thrax
  • ܕܝܘܢܢܘܣܝܘܣ ܬܪܐܩܝܐ4
  • ܕܺܝܘܢܢܘܣܝܘܣ ܬܪܐܩܳܝܐ4
  • ديونيسيوس الثراقي3
  • Dionysius the Thracian5
  • Dionysius Thrax1, 2
  • 'the Thracian'1

Birth

ca. 170 BC1

Death

ca. 90 BC1

Notes

“Greek grammarian and philologist; pupil of Aristarchus of Samothrace; and alleged author of the Téchnē grammatikḗ (‘Art of Grammar’), which became the standard grammar handbook in Constantinople after the 5th cent.” 1
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Works Cited

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  • 1 E. Fiano, "Dionysius Thrax." in Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), pp: 129, 129.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd rev. ed. (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2003), pp: 23.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, al-Luʼluʼ al-manthūr fī tārīkh al-ʻulūm wa-al-ādāb al-Suryāniyyah, 4th ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), pp: 185.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), pp: 43.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 5 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Dionysius the Thracian.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

James E. Walters et al., “Dionysius Thrax — ܕܝܘܢܢܘܣܝܘܣ ܬܪܐܩܝܐ ” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/453.

Bibliography:

James E. Walters et al., “Dionysius Thrax — ܕܝܘܢܢܘܣܝܘܣ ܬܪܐܩܝܐ .”, edited by David A. Michelson and Nathan P. Gibson. Vol. 2 of The Syriac Biographical Dictionary, edited by David A. Michelson. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/453.

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Entry Title: Dionysius Thrax — ܕܝܘܢܢܘܣܝܘܣ ܬܪܐܩܝܐ

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  • GEDSH and Barsoum English name entry, matching with viaf.org records by James E. Walters
  • Editing, Syriac name entry, Arabic name entry, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson
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  • Proofreading of GEDSH abstracts and addition of confessions and alternate names from GEDSH by Nathan P. Gibson

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