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<i>The Art of Grammar</i>

The Art of Grammar

2nd century BCE, first treatise on Greek grammar, attributed to Dionysius Thrax


The Art of Grammar (Greek: Τέχνη Γραμματική - or romanized, Téchnē Grammatikḗ) is a treatise on Greek grammar, attributed to Dionysius Thrax, who wrote in the 2nd century BC.

Contents

It is the first work on grammar in Greek, and also the first concerning a Western language.[citation needed] It sought mainly to help speakers of Koine Greek understand the language of Homer, and other great poets of the past.[1] It has become a source for how ancient texts should be acted out based on the experience from commonly read ancient authors.[2] There are six parts to understanding grammar including trained reading by understanding the dialect from certain poetical figures.[3] There is a nine-part word classification system, which strayed away from the previous eight-part classification system.[4] It describes morphological structure as containing no middle diathesis.[5] There is no morphological analysis and the text uses the Word and Paradigm model.[6][7]

Translation

It was translated into Syriac by Joseph Huzaya of the school of Nisibis in the 6th century.[8] It was also translated into Armenian.[9]


References

  1. "The Art of Grammar", Encyclopædia Britannica. 2010. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 15 July 2010.
  2. Mitchell, Jack (2015). "Literary Performance in the Imperial Schoolroom as Historical Reënactment: The Evidence of the Colloquia, Scholia to Canonical Works, and Scholia to the Techne of Dionysius Thrax". American Journal of Philology. 136 (3): 469–502. doi:10.1353/ajp.2015.0012. ISSN 1086-3168. S2CID 170141521.
  3. "Die Fragmente des Grammatikers Dionysios Thrax", Die Fragmente des Grammatikers Dionysios Thrax. Die Fragmente der Grammatiker Tyrannion und Diokles. Apions Glossai Homerikai, Berlin, New York: DE GRUYTER, pp. 1–78, 1977, doi:10.1515/9783110855135.1, ISBN 9783110855135, retrieved 2021-12-08
  4. Farina, Margherita. "Diathesis and Middle Voice in the Syriac Ancient Grammatical Tradition: The Translations and Adaptations of the Téchne Grammatiké and the Arabic Model." Aramaic Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2008, pp. 175-193.
  5. Wolanin, Hubert. "Ancient Greeks on compounds: Aristotle, Dionysius Thrax, Apollonius Dyscolus." (2017).
  6. "Armenian Early Printed Books (armbook)". greenstone.flib.sci.am. Retrieved 2023-12-14.



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