Institute for the Classical Tradition
ANRW II.33.5, pp. 3826-3851
 
Suetonius on Roman Teachers of Grammar
by Toivo Viljamaa, Turku

Contents

I. Suetonius' treatise 'De grammaticis'

3826

II. Sources

3829

III. The text and its interpretation

3831

1. General remarks

3831

2. Laevius Melissus

3833

3. Sevius, Sueius, or Seius, the poet?

3834

4. Lenaeus, the satirist?

3835

5. Staberius Eros, a Syrian?

3836

6. Where did Apuleius teach?

3836

7. Ethology or Aetiology

3837

8. Ateius Philologus

3838

IV. The structure and plan of the 'De grammaticis'

3840

1. Catalogue of lives

3940

2. Chronological arrangement

3841

3. The representativeness of Suetonius' list

3842

V. The story of the Latin 'grammatice'

3843

VI. Suetonius' estimate of his 'clari professores'

3846
Bibliography 3848
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