Paremiographer

A paremiographer is an ancient Greek scholar who compiled the proverbs (Greek: Paroemīe ) of the Greek people.

meaning

However, the term is also used more generally for scholars who collect proverbs. Parömiographīe refers to the collection of proverbs, an ancient one was published by Ernst von Leutsch and Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin ( Corpus paroemiographorum Graecorum. Göttingen 1839. (Reprint: Olms, Hildesheim 1958)). Parömiologīe is the explanation of proverbs.

Eminent paremiographers

Zenobius (2nd century AD), sophist and philologist
Diogenianos Grammatikos (2nd century AD),
Gregorios II. Kyprios, * 1241, around 1283–1289 Patriarch of Constantinople,
Michael Apostolios from Byzantium (around 1422–1480), Greek writer
Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wander (1803–1879), German proverb collector

literature

Otto Crusius : The Greek Parömiograph. New edition.
Otto Crusius, Socrates B. Kougeas, Sōkratēs V. Kougeas: Pareomiographica: textual history to ancient poetry and religion. Publishing house Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, 1910.

Individual evidence

↑ Johann Christian August Heyse: General foreign dictionary or manual for understanding and avoiding the foreign expressions more or less common in our language: With designation of pronunciation, emphasis and the most necessary explanation. Verlag Hahn, 1835, p. 175. (books.google.de)
↑ zeno.org
↑ Edward Bialek, Detlef Krell, Krzysztof Ruchniewicz, Rainer Sachs (eds.): Silesia Nova, editions 3-2010. 2010, ISBN 978-3-86276-008-4 , p. 122. (books.google.de)

[1] Johann Christian August Heyse: General foreign dictionary or manual for understanding and avoiding the foreign expressions more or less common in our language: With designation of pronunciation, emphasis and the most necessary explanation. Verlag Hahn, 1835, p. 175. (books.google.de)

[2] zeno.org

[3] Edward Bialek, Detlef Krell, Krzysztof Ruchniewicz, Rainer Sachs (eds.): Silesia Nova, editions 3-2010. 2010, ISBN 978-3-86276-008-4 , p. 122. (books.google.de)