| LC control no. | n 87807248 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PA3968.D42 PA3968.D43 |
| Personal name heading | Dionysius, Thrax |
| Variant(s) | Denys, de Thrace Dionysios, ho Thrax Dionysios, Thrax Dionysius, the Thracian Dionysius Thrax Thrax, Dionysius Διονύσιος, ὁ Θρᾳ̂ξ Dionysius, Thrax, approximately 180 B.C.-approximately 90 B.C. |
| Associated place | Alexandria, Egypt Rhodes, Greece |
| Birth date | -0179~ |
| Death date | -0089~ |
| Field of activity | Greek language |
| Profession or occupation | grammarian |
| Special note | Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | Adontsʻ, N. Denys de Thrace et les commentateurs arméniens, 1970. LC data base, 2/9/87 (hdg.: Dionysius Thrax; usage on German record: Dionysios Thrax) Oxford class. dict. (Dionysius, surnamed Thrax, ca. 170-ca. 90 B.C.) Oxford companion to class. lit., 1989 (Dionysius the Thracian) Brill's new Pauly online, 24 February 2011 (Dionysius Thrax ; Διονύσιος ὁ Θρᾳ̂ξ; Greek philologist and grammarian who lived from c. 180/170 to c. 90 BC. The reason for the epithet is unknown; assumed to be from Alexandria; after leaving Alexandria he taught in Rhodes; devoted himself primarily to the philology of Homer; also worked on Hesiod and possibly Alcman) |
| Associated language | grc |
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