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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Byzantium
- Place of death
- Rhodes
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Notable work
- Art of Grammar
- Image
- Дыянісій фракійскі.jpg
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- Commons category
- Dionysius Thrax
- date of death
- 0090-00-00
- student
- Tyrannion of Amisus
- date of birth
- 0170-00-00
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
- writing language
- Ancient Greek
- ancestral home
- Thrace
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Encyclopedic overview
Dionysius Thrax (Ancient Greek: Διονύσιος ὁ Θρᾷξ, romanized: Dionýsios ho Thrâix, 170–90 BC) was a Greek grammarian and a pupil of Aristarchus of Samothrace. He was long considered to be the author of the earliest grammatical text on the Greek language, one that was used as a standard manual for perhaps some 1,500 years, and which was until recently regarded as the groundwork of the entire Western grammatical tradition.
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