Aelius Herodianus

c. 115 CE–c. 180 CE · Rome

Aelius Herodianus was a Greek grammarian of the 2nd century CE, the son of the grammarian Apollonius Dyscolus, who worked at Rome under the emperor Marcus Aurelius. He was one of the most influential scholars of the Greek language in antiquity, especially on questions of accentuation and word-forms, and his treatises were drawn upon by later grammarians for centuries. Much of his work survives only through quotation and abridgement.

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About Rome

Rome, on the Tiber in central Italy, grew from an Iron Age settlement into the capital of the Roman Republic and then of an empire that by the 1st century CE ruled the whole Mediterranean. Its Jewish community, attested from the 2nd century BCE, is among the oldest in Europe. Christian tradition holds that the apostles Peter and Paul died there, and the city became the seat of the popes. After the Western Empire ended in 476 it passed to Gothic kings, to Byzantium and then to papal rule as capital of the Papal States, until it became the capital of unified Italy in 1871. Vatican City, independent since 1929, lies within it.

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Plutarch, Epictetus, Juvenal, Tacitus, Cornelius, Suetonius, Florus, Lucius Annaeus

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Plutarch, Epictetus, Juvenal, Tacitus, Cornelius, Suetonius, Florus, Lucius Annaeus, Favorinus of Arelate, Appian of Alexandria, Aulus Gellius, Galen, Lucius Verus, Cassius Dio, Herodian, Aelian

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