Hephaistion (grammarian)

Hephaestion ( Greek  Ἡφαιστίων , Latin Hephaestio ) was a Greek grammarian who lived in the 2nd century AD.

He wrote several literary studies and an extensive textbook on Greek metrics . The work originally comprised 48 books, but was then edited twice by the author in abridged version, first in eleven books, later in three. Only a few fragments of all these works have survived. In contrast, Hephaestion's handbook ( Encheiridion ) of verse teaching, which was intended for school lessons and remained in use until the Byzantine period, is largely complete . Johannes Tzetzes wrote a versed version of the manual.

literature

Text output

• Hephaestionis Enchiridion. Cum commentariis veteribus edidit Maximilian Consbruch . Acc. variae metricorum Graecorum reliquiae . Leipzig 1906. Reprint Stuttgart 1971, ISBN 978-3-519-01399-0 (decisive critical edition)
• JM van Ophuijsen: Hephaestion, On Meter: A Translation and Commentary . Leiden 1987 (= Mnemosyne . Supplement 100), ISBN 9789004084520 (English translation with commentary)

Secondary literature

• Otto Hense : Hephaistion 7. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VIII, 1, Stuttgart 1912, Col. 296-309.